Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They stumbled toward the riverbanks, some crying out, "Mizu, mizu!" (Water, water); the temperature and their injuries had left them severely dehydrated. Because light colors reflect heat and dark ones absorb it, some bomb victims had the images of their clothing tattooed on their flesh: the pattern of a kimono on a woman's back, the unburned swath left by a sash around the waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away...
...hard to believe; it's that Carcaterra's prose manages to make it seem preposterous. Here, for example, is a description of a football game between the guards and inmates at the correctional facility: "The two front lines banged at each other hard, blood, saliva and tiny pieces of flesh flying through the air." The watching crowd of upstate locals "sat stunned into eerie silence, stilled by the sight of a field filled with red-tinged grass. The spectators were left with little else to do but watch the drama play itself...
However, Gere's portrayal does flesh out the character of Sir Lancelot. This is not an easy task, since traditional Lancelots tend toward a dull, self assured stock hero, with a limited range of emotion. Gere's Lancelot does convince the audience that he really could rival Arthur for the Queen's affections. He may not have the commanding voice and imposing presence of Connery's Arthur, but he risks life and limb for Guinevere on several occasions, and isn't afraid to grunt and sweat while doing...
...form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life...
...what the public interest means with respect to those who are too young to vote, who are barely literate, who are financially, emotionally and even physically dependent on adults, then we will never figure out what it means anywhere else. Our children are the public interest, living and breathing, flesh and blood...