Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surely you've noticed the Jockicus in one of your sections. He usually lacks a neck, or at least it starts and ends with a thick roll of flesh that protrudes from the back of his occipital bone. He looks as if he starts every morning by consuming at least four boxes of Wheaties before rendering an innocent-looking bathroom completely uninhabitable...
...Flesh and Bone...
Among those ends is to convey the unwelcome news that the body capitulates over time, a task for which Avedon's icy style is ideal. Seen in his deadly light, the mortification of the flesh never looked so mortifying as in his portrait of Dorothy Parker, taken after she had steeped herself for decades in martinis and her own bile. Yet put aside the thought that she was rattling herself to pieces, and the very lines of her droopy complexion are as weirdly captivating as strange tattoos. Even if Avedon never had in mind Rilke's claim that "beauty...
...first day of spring occurred last week. Our thoughts turned to the approach of warm weather, and with it, the sluffing off of winter garments, and with that, the unavoidability of baring some of our flesh, and with that the need to diet...
Having dug up the bones of a cunning old genre, Howard lets the flesh hang like crape. There's beaucoup bustle but not much pulse. The pace is too slow for farce, the characters too cartoony for drama. Whereas His Girl Friday ran its gags on the fast track, The Paper often slows down to lend its galaxy of star types (Robert Duvall, Jason Alexander) a hint of dimension to their roles. But these subplots aren't much more sophisticated than those in The Wizard of Oz: Duvall gets a heart, Close a brain, Keaton courage. Tomei gets a baby...