Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PAINT IT, FLESH...
...with these two. There is an episode in which a staff member runs down a list of possible guest hosts while another keeps responding, "Threatens Larry...Threatens Larry," and Shandling's slightly wide-eyed expression (more pronounced in a face that seems to carry three extra layers of flesh) perfectly conveys the sense that Larry is always threatened--by the chance his girlfriend Illeanna Douglas will make a bad guest or that George Segal will be booked again...
Indeed, some analysts see the nuclear tests as a gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his wrath only in defense of a 350-year-old purist interpretation of the Dalai Lama's own Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism. For decades the High Lama himself included Shugden in his daily prayers. But in 1976 he began preaching against the god; in 1996 he discouraged Shugdenites' participation...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...