Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CITIES OF THE FLESH by Zoe Oldenbourg. 503 pages. Pantheon Press...
...exactly the same tone of voice as if his book were being read by a court attendant. Sample day from Bernard Kops's non stop diary: "Near my home one night I was attacked. I didn't feel the blows. It was like fists thudding into dead flesh. I saw stars. On the floor I could see it was a policeman hitting me ... The next day I decided to turn over a new leaf and enter the world of the living dead." And he does...
...second book Grass has turned to another grotesque-a gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple. But if Grass still views life largely as a kind of Gothic sideshow, he permits himself, as he did not in the earlier book, a saving touch of human compassion. As a dwarf who had seceded from the adult world in order to survive in it, Oskar remained a skeptical spectator of absurdity. Through the muted and melancholy chronicle of Mahlke's brief life, Grass seems to say that deformed...
Although he was not there in the flesh, Barry Goldwater was much talked about at last week's Governors' Conference. And talked about especially was his position on civil rights...
...cake makers flesh out their doughy lines with ice cream (often served on waffles), eggs, chicken, hamburgers, all accompanied by unlimited quantities of coffee. All this is enhanced by the loganberry-purple prose of the menu. Sample: "Persian Pancakes, delicate egg batter crepes rolled and filled with strawberries and peaches. Garnished with smooth rich whipped cream. As exotic as a visit to the Pearl of the Orient...