Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smoke settled in the crowded rooms, voices cracked, tempers rose, and then, the hush. The first model. Under the hot white lights she seemed put together of plastic, not flesh; skin dead-pale, so thin that when she swallowed her body trembled with the shock, she strutted and twirled as if a newly wound toy, never perspiring, only glistening prettily. Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped...
Most striking of the many enthusiastic claims for the drill is that it will not damage flesh or other soft tissues. Many of last week's conventioneers plucked up their courage and jammed a bare finger against the whirring drill. It stopped without drawing blood or even causing pain. But shoved against bone or tissue that has been hardened by chalky deposits, the drill will cut with ease. One Pittsburgh surgeon has already used it to sculpture the delicate leaflets of an aortic valve (adjoining the heart) after they had been deformed by calcification. Because its lightness and small...
...unerringly at the point where the story is growing; and the actors are used in the inimitable Bergman manner-as windows not so much seen as seen through, as ways of entering a reality that lies within them and beyond them. In Mai Zetterling, for instance, Bergman sees warm flesh and hot blood, but he also sees through body into being, into the luminous soul of a woman in love...
...stroke (which doctors call a cerebrovascular accident or CVA) seems superficially simple: a shutdown of any kind in one of the arteries in the neck or head cuts off the essential supply of blood and oxygen to part of the brain, which then "dies." For unlike cells in flesh, or even in bone, which go on multiplying until near the end of life, brain cells have virtually no power to reproduce themselves. Medicine can only rely on whatever self-healing capacity the damaged brain area has-or find some way to stimulate another part of the brain to take over...
...read one novel, listened to one symphony and studied one art masterpiece each week. He took up painting. One day, trying to read Shakespeare aloud, he discovered he had a speech impediment. He found his tongue was tied- attached to the floor of the mouth by too much flesh. He went to a surgeon, had it freed, and worked as a janitor in a drama school in order to learn to speak properly. He was soon the friend and protege of John Barrymore. He married Cecil B. DeMille's daughter, but proudly refused to work for his father...