Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oiling the Hinges. Ever since the first cave man sealed a tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation...
...them we see the world we would have if we could choose our world. "The search after great men," Emerson wrote, "is the dream of youth and the most serious occupation of manhood ...Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons." For a free nation whose moral flesh has become soft with disuse and fat with self flattery, a Great Man has a special role. More than the leader who would direct us, or the philosopher who would admonish us, he must be a man in whose image we would mold ourselves. To liberal Democrats during...
Still, the torn edges of the flesh, and the jagged ends of blood vessels, nerves and tendons had to be trimmed back. To give themselves room, the Chinese surgeons did something that their American colleagues consider very clever. They cut back the bones on each side of the break for almost a quarter-inch, thus preparing clean, smooth surfaces for joining...
...hued raincoat, tall black boots with giant handbag to match-and a slouch-brimmed sou'wester. Having carried that off, she later headed for the show rehearsal in wrist-to-ankle blue jeans. But no need to fret, chaps. By show time she was in uniform-a clinging, flesh-colored gown, and when she huskily intoned Lili Marlene, you could have heard a tear drop...
...Tortoise and the Hare," the first story, is not really a fable. Fables are supposed to have morals, but this little flesh flick does not--at least not in the parietal hours sense. It was included in the trio for the sake of the "Coming Attractions," and for those viewers who enjoy watching seminude women. Although the imbecilic plot was meant to be bittersweet, women's leagues will probably call it tasteless, since it has the camera constantly leering at Sylvia Koscina in a blouse slit to the waist...