Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel, a minister who professes to be "a happy man," Jo is increasingly dissatisfied with her predictable life. Her three grown daughters have left the house, her career no longer provides the excitement it once...
Hard-core Harvard aficionados will display true alma mater chauvinism with a more permanent memento. After all, life is good; stain your flesh crimson and wear it everywhere you go! Choose to indulge in a discreet "veritas" just above the ankle or, for those who epitomize risque, a full-torso enhancement. Whatever. Just remember: location, location, location...
...Hard-core Harvard aficionados will display true alma mater chauvinism with a more permanent memento. After all, life is good; stain your flesh crimson and wear it everywhere you go! Choose to indulge in a discreet "veritas" just above the ankle or, for those who epitomize risque, a full-torso enhancement. Whatever. Just remember: location, location, location...
Slowly, I come to my senses. My bare flesh recoils from my icy bathroom tile. I am wearing nothing but my red plaid boxers. There is a putrid stench, but its origin is unclear. Early morning sunlight streams through a window. I bring myself upright and lean against the bathtub. The toilet stands amidst a puddle of vomit. At its sight, I hold back a dry heave. God bless the Hong Kong...
...ends with Monica. The cartoon versions of her that dominated the past year--child-victim, stalker-vamp--threatened to reappear on Saturday, when we got to meet her at last, on videotape. But for all the artful editing by both sides, there was no concealing that a flesh-and-blood Monica Lewinsky really does exist after all. She talks, she hides, she teases, she thinks fast and explains, grounded and credible and well practiced after 23 depositions. The very reality of her was more of a relief and revelation than anything she had to say. And that her long-awaited...