Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are the ones we read and hear about all the time, but never see in the flesh. They are the student leaders, the sports heroes, the actors, the community-service organizers, the Rhodes Scholars, the Undergraduate Council presidents of our world. Or maybe they aren't particularly distinguished in anything at all, but chance throws them onto the front page of the paper again and again. Maybe they streaked in Primal Scream, or they were sitting up late in the library and appeared in a "slice-of-life" photo, or they were in line to get into some...
...teaching style is very conceptual, he tends to give you a skeleton to flesh out," Biss says, "So, if you're motivated, it can be inspiring...
...been institutionalized as another kind of sentimentality--tough-guy picturesque. He's the Norman Rockwell of the Ratso Rizzos, the Currier & Ives of the roughnecks. He took his share of kids at the circus and sweet old couples, but the images we love him for are the ones that flesh out our film-noir fantasies. They reassure us that the bad news of our own tabloidy times is just the recurrence of something eternal in human nature. Weegee's world is one where the cops have just beaten the suspect, where the crowd leers at the beauty queen and where...
...majestic (Queen Elizabeth II in 1952), the visionary (Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963) and the revolutionary (Lech Walesa in 1981). There has been the man in uniform (G.I. Joe in 1950), the younger generation (1966) and an entire gender (American women, 1975). The computer beat out flesh and blood in 1982. And the earth itself became the biggest newsmaker in 1988. But more often than not, it is a single individual who best expresses the sweep of history...
...pretty big deal back then. But we wanted four kids. What to do? Simple. Have one child biologically and adopt three. Who cares whom they look like or what color they are? My kids are now 30, 28, 25 and 22. To me, they're all my flesh and blood. I've never given a second thought to the fact that some are adopted. Ups and downs? Naturally. But I'm their mom, and each one of them is the light of my life every day. LOIS ROHR Billings, Mont...