Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Love may well be life's most blinding obsession, but Colwin is so obsessed with her subject that for the first six of her eight stories she actually neglects the players. Flesh fades before wordplay as he, elegant in his tweed coat and paisley scarf, embraces her, a slob in worn corduroys and ratty sweater, on the way to the frowsy couch in Billy's study. Readers can scarcely hear Billy's battered loafers thud to the floor for the detonations of insights and definitions...
...simply cannot afford to spend the kind of money we have been spending lately. In the last decade we have run up such an enormous deficit that we are now in the position of having to cut out not only the fat from federal programs, but also the flesh. Valuable military, social, and educational programs will have to be jettisoned. We have to pay for our past extravagence...
...OUTRAGED? Or offended, indignant, nauseous or otherwise mortified by Sports Illustrated's annual exhibition of flesh in the name of fashion...
...Vincent and thousands of other Americans are benefiting from an ingenious union of computer and video technology that enables clients and customers to see how they will look with reshaped features, restyled cosmetics, the latest suit or a new head of hair--all before they commit their flesh to the scalpel or their cash to a purchase. The new systems are easing the qualms of prospective cosmetic-surgery patients, making life easier for their doctors and boosting sales in department stores nationwide...
Cambridge activist Johnston demonstrated her"Stretch-A-Buck" campaign theme with a rubberdollar bill. She said the Gramm-Rudman law'srequired budget cuts could be made in "the fat,not the flesh" of the government's spendingprograms...