Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrasts so sharply with the general torpor. Only one scene is triumphant--when Louise and family friend Yvette (the wonderful Delphine Seyrig, of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) don slacks for the first time and model them for Gilles, and though it is the opposite of physical flesh-baring, it causes a glee symbolic of the liberation they are going through, and it means just as much as does their new found delight in the cliffs and beaches that surround their home...
...When electric shocks are applied, all that a man feels is that they're ripping apart his flesh. And he howls." Thus Timerman recalls his torture after capture...
John Paul's travels have made him a familiar personality in every corner of the world, a beloved figure to many humble people who have seen no other celebrated name in the flesh. In Mexico, which the Pope visited in early 1979 on the first foreign tour of his pontificate, Ingracia Lopez, 78, who had sat in the front row at one of the Pontiffs Masses, mourned: "He has such a great affinity for all Mexicans, such charisma, such heart. This shooting is an act of insolence." Brazilians, whom the Pope visited for twelve days last summer, referred...
...nation's pulse quickened, as "Freedom Summer" took on a national character. Demonstrations, legislation, burnings, beatings, jailings--it seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined...
GOOD LUCK with the motivation behind City of Women, Federico Fellini's latest baroque-nightmare-cum-flesh-fantasy. Food for thought and conversation, perhaps, but it yields no neat, coherent conceptual summary--better just to sit back and savor...