Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frank X. Leonard '01, looking ready to press the flesh despite the early hour, arrives in front of the Science Center. But asked how he was feeling, Leonard answers less than enthusiastically: "I'm actually very sick...
...Guys in all varieties of dress and blood alcohol levels line the walls and floor, chanting riotously. We have walked into the middle of the "Most Eligible Bachelorette Contest." The ladies dance, sing and are encouraged to strip. Dan Ratner had won the earlier bachelor competition, allegedly baring extensive flesh in the process. When the ladies competition ends (Melissa Coleman, whose "talent" and strategy had been to to cook the food consumed earlier in the party, is named "Most Eligible Bachelorette"), the winners receive their prizes: a kiss from the party attendee of their choice. Ratner claims he is unable...
Society's horrified reaction has plenty of precedent as well. In Leviticus, God tells Moses: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." And John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis, Man Transformed or, the Artificial Changeling, Historically Presented, a Puritan diatribe published in 1653, railed against disfigurement of the body in pursuit of "ridiculous beauty," "filthy fineness" and "loathesome loveliness...
Lance Morrow in his piece on handshakes, "Pressing the Germy Flesh" [ESSAY, Nov. 8], refers to Donald Trump's well-known aversion to shaking hands. I wonder, Did the Donald learn his obsession with having clean hands from Howard Hughes? Two of a kind! DAVID E. RUSSELL Jacksonville...
Also vanishing are the shock-value headlines that the old Enquirer once made infamous. Compared with "KILLS PAL AND EATS PIECES OF HIS FLESH," recent efforts like "DEMI TO WED!" seem a little pallid. And when a Star staffer member was fired recently for getting into a fracas with the L.A. police while pursuing a story, tabloid veterans shuddered. Not so long ago, the reporter might have been given a bonus...