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...face fills the screen, shot in extreme closeup. We see eyes, a nose, a mouth; not enough, for the moment, to decide age or sex. The eyes are wide open, perhaps in wonder, perhaps in horror. Now we see the fingers of a second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white...
...more devoted to the perks than to the duties of his office. He blandly called intrastate helicopter hops "the best way to travel." Aides had to coax him into playing fewer tennis matches with celebrities, such as Andy Williams and Arthur Ashe, and spending more time pressing the flesh. Still, his backhand is naturally superior to his handshake. During an Italian-American street festival in Chambersburg, N.J., Jimmy Carter had to prompt the Governor?and candidate?to climb onto a chair with him so he could be seen by the crowd of 15,000. Then, while Carter waved exuberantly, Byrne...
...Square's flesh palaces. While some of these settings no longer look as they did in Lowry's day, Director Brittain wisely sacrifices strict factual accuracy to the greater cause of establishing an emotional texture for his story. The atmosphere is further enhanced by Richard Burton's eloquent recitations of Lowry's prose on the sound track...
Spellacy's own career was blotched by petty corruption, his private life by weaknesses of the flesh. Still he remains cheerful, for like his brother the Rt. Rev. Desmond Spellacy, chancellor of the Los Angeles archdiocese and an outstanding golfer, Tommy knows that vice is far more interesting than virtue. For wickedness offers the double pleasure of sinning and confessing...
Keep life out in the open. It doesn't do too well when disguised Someday you'll have to face the cold facts Stripped of your cloak of dreams. And though it tears deep into your flesh, It's up to you never to forget That your life is in the living of it--And after winter, comes spring...