Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle-aged women into bubble shapes or bustles, often at mid-thigh. That led him to an unintended refutation of the Duchess of Windsor's maxim that one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sometimes his widely copied dresses show more skeleton than flesh, but so ubiquitous are they at galas and cocktail parties in the U.S. that Women's Wear Daily has taken to commenting on "social knees." His influence can now be seen internationally, from a pretty young girl in Tampa wearing a copy of his puff pantaloons to the recent Seventh Avenue shows that blushed with...
...Earlier in the year Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and Philip Roth's The Counterlife held positions on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar, Straus author, Larry Heinemann, won a National Book Award for his novel Paco's Story. Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize for Literature was a welcome honor, but then the publisher has no fewer than six other living laureates on its list: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elias Canetti...
...only from faculty to student but among the pupils. "The academically advanced should, and at my school do, provide tutoring for the less able," he says. " 'Hey, brother, I love you.' That's a stronger philosophy, and there is nothing wimpy about it." He also believes in pressing the flesh in the schoolyard, and some of that flesh is mighty big. In the hallway between fifth and sixth periods, a young giant with a dazzling, ear-to-ear smile engulfs McKenna in a hug and announces he has just been declared academically eligible to play basketball. McKenna grins and admonishes...
...audience in the country's first revolving Carousel Theater is all ears. As the stage revolves, the sagacious bird launches into a lecture on the virtues of isolationism. Finally the Feathered One concludes, "People are like dreams," a huge red sun rises above the stage, and all the flesh-and-blood visitors to the Meet the World pavilion are ushered next door into a kind of epilogue to the show: a National Panasonic model of the ideal Japanese home of the future, featuring four members of a robot-simulated family, plus dog, attending to their own techno-gadgets. Tokyo Disneyland...
...turned on the charm in his public appearances, such as Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House, where he and Wife Raisa joined Pianist Van Cliburn in singing Moscow Nights. Later in the week he stopped his motorcade on Connecticut Avenue to hop out and press the flesh with passersby. Gushed one thrilled bystander: "It was like the coming of the second Messiah or something." Now that's public relations...