Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Altman has assembled a dream cast to flesh out his ironic panoply. Besides Tim Robbins, the movie is blessed with the presence of Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Richard E. Grant (in a hilarious virtuoso turn as a writer) and Lyle Lovett (in his film debut...
...that is an old-fashioned tale of Love and Loss. There may even be an element of progression here, moving from the beatific harmony of the opening scene to the chaotic disintegration and orgiastic simulated sex and the final tangled mass of exhausted, motionless flesh...
Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
There are times when the government lays its hands, sometimes not so gently, on the human body. But the judicial system's responsibility to justify its actions grows heavier as it presumes to act more seriously against the flesh -- or one's "bodily integrity," as some legal thinkers and ethicists put it. At one end of the spectrum is the police officer who gently pushes back a crowd when a parade comes down the street. At the other end is the executioner. In between are compulsory blood tests for drug use or AIDS, court-imposed caesareans and the sterilizations that...
...sick," also visited the accused man in jail, amid reports that Butler himself may be wavering. Without a prisoner's agreement, a Texas appeals court is unlikely to approve a castration. Not so long as the law still holds that no sentence should be written into a prisoner's flesh...