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...said the stench was unbearable, and whose last act was to expel a torrent of brown vomit, any romantic clichas of the periwigged rococo china doll who wept when Marie Antoinette refused to kiss him have long been dispelled. In their place is a far more realistic Mozart of flesh and blood, whose musical mastery was not a gift of the gods but the life's work...
Eventually, the amendment failed. But in whose name had Gramm fought with such indignation? Throughout the debate, Gramm invoked the figure of the embattled common taxpayer, the "real, honest, flesh-and-blood working person in America." In his arguments, Gramm had a sharp distinction between the taxpayers, who "pull the wagon," and the rest, who ride it: "I am always amazed at how much passion there is for the people that are benefiting from government and how little passion there is for the people that are paying for the government...
Author Richard Zacks set out to "put flesh and blood on the bare bones of history." While this isn't exactly history, it is ideal bedside reading. Zacks doesn't set out to reach any conclusions about history or sexual mores. He tries to titillate and surprise; and he succeeds...
...school of Dadaism, photography parallels the development of fine arts rather than emulating it. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Frederick Sommer bring out visual puns of sexuality and tradition in their early 20th century images. In "Valise d'Adam" (1949) Sommers constructs a metaphorical expulsion of Eve from Adam's flesh: a blond baby doll emerging from a menagerie of fabricated objects in the form...
Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...