Word: fleshed
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Love may well be life's most blinding obsession, but Colwin is so obsessed with her subject that for the first six of her eight stories she actually neglects the players. Flesh fades before wordplay as he, elegant in his tweed coat and paisley scarf, embraces her, a slob in worn corduroys and ratty sweater, on the way to the frowsy couch in Billy's study. Readers can scarcely hear Billy's battered loafers thud to the floor for the detonations of insights and definitions...
...scarce fruits and grains that nourish man, whereas cud-chewing animals (cattle, sheep, goats) develop on high-cellulose brush plants that are hard for man to digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers the clean life when man will provide...
...hands of a melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic fallacy. But in Lopez's hands its death is its own and no one else's; and its minutely observant reconstruction under the brush, each nuance of its shrunken flesh reconstituted by a mark, fleck or scribble of paint that carries its wiry vitality as a sign, gives the inspection of this still and single object the power of narrative...
...simply cannot afford to spend the kind of money we have been spending lately. In the last decade we have run up such an enormous deficit that we are now in the position of having to cut out not only the fat from federal programs, but also the flesh. Valuable military, social, and educational programs will have to be jettisoned. We have to pay for our past extravagence...
...OUTRAGED? Or offended, indignant, nauseous or otherwise mortified by Sports Illustrated's annual exhibition of flesh in the name of fashion...