Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come to be regarded not so much as a man but as an enduring symbol of authoritarianism. At 82, Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, the Caudillo of Spain, had become increasingly secluded, aloof from the people, distant even from his own subordinates. The olive-colored flesh sagged in folds from his face, his palsied right hand trembled continuously, and the speech-once shrill and demanding-was slurred and frequently unintelligible. The figure, barely 5 ft. 3 in. tall, had never been especially heroic, even in a general's uniform decorated with medals, sash and sword; in recent years it seemed...
...contrast, ebullient, shirt-sleeved Biilent Ecevit, campaigning in the Anatolian city of Eskisehir, charged that Turkish foreign policy was "controlled by the U.S. Congress," and denounced government corruption. A onetime graduate student at Harvard, former Premier Ecevit, 50, plunged into the throngs to press the flesh U.S.-style. For the first time in Turkey's history, women were a noticeable part of the youthful crowds at his rallies...
...were late for their own reception outside City Hall. Timilty, with places to go and flesh to press, was not sure he could wait for them. But he stood for a while in city hall plaza along with 45,000 other Sox fans, squinting up at the mezzanine-level terrace to catch a first glimpse of the almost world champions...
...more complex and problematical - more difficult of approach - in Europe than in America. Hence the extraordinary flavor of the nudes and portraits by Lucien Freud, the 52-year-old grandson of Sigmund: more psychic territory is crossed in Freud's scrutiny of a few square inches of worn flesh than one might find in a whole roomful of recent American realism. A similar process happens in Avigdor Arikha's tenacious and diffident still lifes. They are small monuments to the difficulty of naming any object. And like many of the other works in this show, they testify that...
...France or Germany, not even the generals, had any idea what trench warfare-the dominant reality of the Western Front-would be like. When it came, it was indefinable: hundreds of thousands of young men existing like stupefied moles in the badly shored-up gutters of mud and decaying flesh that zigzagged their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe or the Butte de Warlincourt by the abstract decisions of rigid or incompetent staff officers. At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, 110,000 English and Australian troops started walking toward the rusty thickets of German...