Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme-using Veteran's Day as his cue. "For these Americans," he said of the troops at Fort Benning, "Viet Nam is no academic question. It is not a topic for cocktail parties, office arguments or debate from some distant sidelines. Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds no crack in our courage-no split in our resolve -and no encouragement to prolong his war in the shortness of our patience...
...members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen in Woman and Child, is allied to the parents by De Kooning's inimitable soiled-pink flesh tones...
...spitballers who threw at your head; but I had never run up against people so lacking in the human graces." He found that New York literary types were not much better. One after another, the idols of his boyhood came tumbling down when he met them in the flesh...
...truth, Dietrich doesn't do badly for a 65-year-old grandmother-even though she stands on stage as rigidly expressionless as Ed Sullivan, and the famed husky voice is now both thin and strident. Molded into a $30,000 skintight, flesh-colored gown, however, she can still give the illusion of youth, at least across the footlights. And there is the illusion of sex as she glances at the balcony while chanting a self-mocking version of The Laziest Gal in Town...
While the flesh flicks have served as a training ground for a few serious young directors unable to crack the big studios,* they are primarily a haven for the fast-talk, fast-buck artists. One Hollywood nudie producer, Ted Paramore, prides himself on dreaming up such come-on titles as The Girl with Hungry Eyes and Not Tonight, Henry. "Titles are very important in this business," he explains, "because frankly the pictures aren't that different." He even welcomes the censorship attempts of some newspapers when they change the ads for Days of Sin and Nights of Nymphomania...