Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BECAUSE I WAS FLESH by Edward Dahlberg. 234 pages. New Directions...
...Flesh of the flesh of the world...
...Though the film runs two hours, much longer than necessary, its best scenes are unforgettably good. Cheering throngs at a Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered tomato-despite the obvious symbolism-suddenly, almost insidiously, conveys the whole meaning of horror and grief combined...
...pays considerably more attention to faith healing than theology. Its members adhere strictly to Aimee's fourfold teaching of Christ as saviour, healer, baptizer and coming king, supplement the Bible with a booklet of her teachings. Most of today's members never saw hypnotic Aimee in the flesh, but they teach a hagiographic account of her life, celebrate every Oct. 9, her birthday, as Founder...
Ester's farewell. Wholly indifferent, Anna turns toward the open window, sensating, reviving her spirits with the shock of rain and wind against her flesh. The boy continues reading, still driven by his own need to know all that is knowable...