Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organic and never blatant. Its tawny ochers and deep blues suggest landscape, though in a distant way. The whites in Pale Fire, 1988, are not flat white but a subtle paste applied over a warm brown ground in rapidly varying touches, so that they have the visual elasticity of flesh. Scully is a conservative, measured colorist. His sense of art, the seemingly obsolete act of communicating by smearing mud on cloth, is anchored in the past. You can see traces of his idols throughout -- especially, in his liking for silvery grays, pinks and a constant regulating black, Velasquez...
...That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter/ Because the flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter/ So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness/ Forgiveness/ Even if, even if you don't love me anymore." Brand new, that song already sounds like a classic...
...Hollywood musicals he loved. Rather than the usual lineup of leggy girls scantily clad in slinky dresses, he pictured beribboned beauties in floor-length ball gowns. Lee failed to anticipate the outrage of campus males when they learned they would be deprived of the show of flesh that was traditionally part of homecoming. A group ganged up on the young producer, threatening to beat him up. But Lee stood firm. "In the end he did it his way," recalls Monty Ross, a friend from Lee's college days and vice president of his production company, 40 Acres and A Mule...
...made it legal may now be forced to consider under what circumstances it might be immoral, and to show tolerance for the thinking of the other side. The same process might persuade pro-lifers to acknowledge that a fetus does not develop in a vacuum but entwined in the flesh of another human being with rights and a life that could unravel if the pregnancy is carried to term...
...posturing, however, in the taut, emotion-driven chapter that tells of his father's death at age 54. Surgery to remove a cancer-infected lung disclosed that the disease had spread, inoperably. Reynolds, then a junior at Duke University, was at his bedside, holding the "warm, dead flesh" of Will's wrist, when the end came. He heard "a high moan, an eerie whistle." As Will's head pressed deep into the pillows, "the eyes stayed shut but the skin of his face turned purple, and the hard wave rolled downward from mind to feet. It was plainly as real...