Word: fleshed
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Since the acting is superb and since Crowe both wrote and directed Singles, only he can be blamed for any shortcomings. One flaw is his attempt to incorporate too much into his characters' lives. He neglects to flesh out subplots like Janet's breast enlargement, Linda's miscarriage, and her month-long environmental trip to Alaska...
...thinks. The ring of figures in Dance (II), 1909-10, refers back to a long tradition of representations of Bacchanalian dances, from the ancient Greeks through to Poussin. The color is almost as simple and emblematic as that of an Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching...
...that can be thought can be written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
...ready. They lack a coherent negotiating strategy, a clear chain of command, qualified technical advisers, even a unified set of position papers. "We are a bunch of academics and politicians who are not qualified to run technical negotiations," admits a team member. Meanwhile, the Palestinians want Rabin to flesh out exactly what kind of autonomy he has in mind. Last week he insisted that he would not stand for a full-fledged legislature in the occupied territories, as the Palestinians want, only an elected "administrative council." Says a West Bank delegate: "For us, Rabin gets scary when he starts talking...
...been enhancing the electorate's picture of him, his message stagnated. What did get through to the public was largely negative. Tough press accounts of Perot's business practices, particularly his use of private investigators, made an impression. So did the constant assertion that Perot lacked a program to flesh out his promise of "action, action, action." When asked if "the lack of detail in Perot's proposals for solving the country's problems" worried them, 61% of voters said...