Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest that life is a contest of individuals, it doesn't suggest that duelling is a ridiculous feudal survival, and it doesn't say anything about Barry's place as a gentleman or what a gentleman is, to name just three possibilities. Any of these could have given flesh to the film's skeletal frame. Does Barry's adherence to rules of duelling make him a gentleman, or does he take advantage of the rules? After his card-sharping experiences on the continent the latter verdict seems more likely. You could, if you wanted to stretch things, see Barry...
Evil Eye Fleegle, a creation of Cartoonist Al Capp, can deliver a "whammy," or dirty look, so powerful that it can melt steel and shrivel flesh. Neither U.S. nor Soviet researchers can duplicate Fleegle's feat. But both sides have long been working on weapons that may do the same thing. Jane's Yearbooks, London publisher of the authoritative guides to weapons systems, and the influential U.S. publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend...
...favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers, whispering together like upholstered vultures...
...beginning to array his whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...
Onlookers in the Adams House dining room subdue Master Robert J. Kiely after he repeatedly stabs Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold in the chest with a fork. "Boy, is he touchy," Gold says. "All I wanted to know was where he got that flesh-colored yarmulka...