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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship mean to gold and splay all the youth of the city?" The production wisely lets such contemporary resonances ring for themselves. The cast concentrates on turning quirks of plot into confrontations of flesh and blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: License in the Park | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...been dealing with space travel at all, but with man's emprisonment inside his own conscience, his own memories, his ties to the past. The ocean Solaris, Kelvin begins to understand, draws men's dreams from their subconscious during the night and makes them materialize, not in flesh and blood but in "neutrinos," an indestructible substance that renders the apparitions immortal. Hence the "guests"--they are dreams brought to life. No wonder the ocean looks grey and creviced, like a brain. A simple Freudian parable. Maybe...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Star Trek, Russian Style | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

...Liverpool, in a house on Highgate Avenue, Frank and Nora Elliot pick at each other like vultures who cannot wait for death to sate their appetites. They tear away while the flesh is still warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Battle of Britain | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...fact that she joined the Peace Corps at the age of 68. Later, he ran into Carter in a black restaurant, when Carter was campaigning for Governor. Young noted that the candidate not only shook hands with the prominent diners but also went into the kitchen to press the flesh with the cooks and dishwashers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter's Only Campaign Debt | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...more than five years ago is thought to have cost the lives of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 Ugandans. Survivors of Amin's jails tell horror stories of prisoners sledgehammered to death by fellow inmates who were then forced to eat the flesh of those they had just killed. There are reports that whole villages have been machine-gunned, and the bodies fed to crocodiles. The Entebbe embarrassment will yield its own crop of corpses: the four air controllers and radar supervisors who had the misfortune to be manning the airport tower when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Idi Amin: The Bully of Kampala | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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