Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have observed this phenomenon not just in the apparent abstinences of the flesh, but everywhere, and I have seen it for years. The poetry students I teach, to my enduring amazement, write rarely if ever about love, and even more rarely about sex. I am, for that matter, more likely to find in my collected stacks a poem about their difficulties with their Macintosh than with their girl- or boyfriend! Where my generation's favorite bumper sticker may have been "MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR," theirs, I am virtually convinced, will in no time be, "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE...
...work of Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to come: no pictures of combat, no punctured flesh that might offend Victorian sensibilities. No matter, they represented a watershed. With these views of officers at leisure and a stark gully littered with cannonballs, the curtain had gone up on the theater of combat...
...champion noted that the computer kept playing long after a flesh-and-blood opponent would have resigned...
...been the source of its fascination to other painters. In rendering appearances, every artist has a code of some sort -- a way in which the licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both the half...
...swept over the city almost continually. Civilian casualties numbered in the thousands, many of them buried inside collapsed buildings. Food and medicine began to run out. "Everywhere corpses," one survivor later recalled, "wounded humans, killed horses." As soon as a horse fell, said another, "people cut off pieces of flesh, leaving only a skeleton." Throughout the battle, Warsaw Radio broadcast a Chopin polonaise over and over, showing that the surrounded city was still fighting...