Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advertising agency. "The theme will be dopey broads and handsome men. Women mostly control the tube, and NBC's hope is that enough of them will spot one of their pretty men and stick around." Adds TV Consultant Mike Dann: "The trend is toward fantasy. There is more flesh exposed, but there really isn't much sex." It is a pattern that Silverman, who started it all when he was chief programmer at ABC, is not likely to change; S-Day may really stand for the Same, over and over again...
...ones. To her astonishment, Harvard beach is littered with uninhabited tennis shoes, crewneck sweaters and T-shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next to him with brilliant talent for procrastination, has actually begun to play a harmonica and toss a frisbee simultaneously--the college student's Dylan imitation. And the red girl...
...photograph of Gelsey Kirkland lumbering up epitomizes the ambivalence inherent in Kirkland's ballet of perfection: it is at once artistically awe-inspiring and physically grotesque. The flesh is mortified, and the world is enriched...
ALONG WITH THE CHURCH and Pike committees' reports, the books by Philip Agee, Marchetti and Marks, and Frank Snepp, Stockwell's revelations flesh out a truly scary picture of the CIA, outwardly vicious and bungling, inwardly paranoid and clubby. The things a CIA operative in a foreign country worries most about, Stockwell says, in order of importance, are the local U.S. ambassador and staff interfering, restrictive cables from CIA headquarters, local gossips in the neighborhood, the local police and the press. Last of all is the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency...
...technique that we have to live with, and our leaders sometimes die with, to make willingness to be a sacrifice to the law a condition of rising to greatness. There is a price to be paid for the luxury of ambition. The brutality of this view (here is suffering flesh and blood, the law is only an abstraction) is, however, less reprehensible than the assumption we have all started to make, and not just because of kidnapings: that law and order are already at an end. This belief, which we are often too scared to articulate, makes...