Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beach of the Encantadas" that Sebastian, the poet of Suddenly Last Summer, who later would himself be eaten, saw, as his mother relates it, a skyful of carnivorous birds swoop and attack myriads of newly hatched sea turtles, "tearing the undersides open and rending and eating their flesh . . . and when he came back, he said, 'Well, now I've seen Him'-and he meant...
...veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel near Acapulco, in Mexico. The hotelkeeper, the Widow Maxine Faulk, played by Bette Davis, is a hostage to devil-in-the-flesh sensuality. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal), a defrocked clergyman turned tourist guide, is spooked by guilt. As a man who was barred from his church for committing "fornication and heresy in the same week," O'Neal seems agonizingly nailed to a cross of nerves. Nonno (Alan Webb), a 97-year-old poet, is the prisoner of art and age, struggling between memory lapses to finish a new poem. Hannah...
...journey from flesh is longest...
...doubt he formed societies for protection like the modern baboon. That is only part of the story, for baboons are herbivorous. Australopithecus was a flesh-eater, and he needed to kill in order to survive. But a four-foot, ninety pound ape-man is a poor match for a large animal--unless he is armed...
...sand dunes by Karl Knaths ("Naturally, we all knew about dunes anyway, but we didn't know about these dunes"), a Pietà by Abraham Rattner "that compares with the last sculptures on that theme by Michelangelo." a standing nude by Raphael Soyer ("We see freshly the tired flesh, the dull face, the patient, loving application of paint"). Concludes Getlein: "You find that the only reasonable answer to 'What's new?' is given by the older painters, those who are still painting for vision, for representation, for organization, for almost anything except the wish...