Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listen, "We Kurds are finally free." Jails were thrown open; prisoners set at liberty. Kurds spoke openly of their travails without fear of retribution from Baghdad's once omnipresent spies. Even the discovery of the horrors of Saddam's torture camps -- corpses studded with maggots, canisters of rotting human flesh stored at local outposts of the dreaded Estikhbarat (military intelligence), prisoners who had not seen the light of day for so many years that they thought they were still living in the 1970s -- seemed a catharsis before the new era of freedom...
...president might even use the occasion to flesh out his much-heralded "New World Order." If we're really lucky, Bush might introduce a domestic agenda...
Just about the only spark of life is Poitier's flamboyant performance. Not that the spark is always warming. Though Poitier, 64, is still a magnetic screen presence, his precise diction, darting gestures and eccentric pauses have become so mannered that any resemblance to flesh-and-blood conversation seems merely coincidental. In his big courtroom speeches, one can hardly find the legal arguments amid the actorish flourishes. No real judge would be swayed, but the Emmy jury will undoubtedly be bowled over...
...behavior, he responds, "I will not speak of this." The understatement works wonders. This disastrous affair comes trailing some of the cliches of romantic fiction: kinky sex, a wineglass snapped between clenched fingers. But Damage, through its fastidious language, restores these tired old tropes to the realm of flesh and blood...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...