Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who writes by day and wrongs by night. Like Author Metalious, she produces a bestseller about a meretricious little New England town, and is all but drummed out of it by indignant neighbors. Her fatherly old publisher comforts her in the best way he knows how, and he certainly knows...
...creature crouched in the net at the Montreal Canadiens' end of the ice looked like nothing ever seen before in the National Hockey League. His face was covered by a flesh-colored, fiber-glass mask slashed by two dark ovals for eyes and a hole for a mouth that looked from a distance like a gush of black blood. But Jacques Plante, 30, the brooding, acrobatic French Canadian who is hockey's finest goalie, was oblivious to the shocked cries from the stands. Said he: "I don't give a damn how it looks...
...Proprietary Ltd. chose an isolated bay, named in honor of Pearler Kuribayashi, brought in an experienced team of 36 to start work. Into the big shells the pearlers inserted a special bead of shell cut from a big Mississippi River "pigtoe" mussel, then grafted in a piece of oyster flesh that was already exuding pearl-forming nacre. The first crop from the 100,000 oysters was harvested secretly in June 1958, and the results were staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls; the best was nine-tenths of an inch...
...just scored against Tennessee. One point was needed to tie, two to win. Like true champions, L.S.U. never hesitated: they gave All-America Halfback Billy Cannon the ball. "He's coming on the power play," shouted a Tennessee tackle, and a quarter of a ton of Tennessee flesh hit Cannon all at once, stopped him dead. That was the ball game. L.S.U. made twice as many first downs and three times as much yardage, but fumbles, pass interceptions, and Tennessee's alert defense brought L.S.U. its first defeat, ended a 19-game winning streak...
...Iron Bars Alone. Says Dr. Hunt: "Our 'humane' practice may be almost as brutalizing and degrading as those of past centuries. It is a rare patient now who suffers cruelties to the flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect...