Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good sexual joke here -- the tireless besieger besieged, sacked and pillaged -- but the author won't let matters play that way. He ) allows no distance at all from constant sexual striving, less pornography than pathology. Every page of every chapter is nose to skin, eyeball to sweaty flesh, told by Ira in long, gush-of-consciousness sentences that ooze on for several hundred words. Now and then the type switches to italic as the tormented Fiona, somewhat less convincingly, rants her anguish...
...Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution...
...love the answer, as the poets proclaimed? Riches? The pleasures of the flesh? We remembered what Prince had said: "Fancy something, and something something/ It'll save your face, but it won't save your soul...
...rights and abortion. Sold by subscription and in bookstores and newsstands across the country, the growing zine has a circulation of 5,000 and remains optimistic. Although the impression caused by the pieces is ambiguous, underlying each work is the reaffirmation of the fact that "we are flesh. We are blood. And we can play with...
...such a thin wall of flesh between...