Word: fleshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time. This trailer's teaser scene shows a raging lunatic perfecting his gasoline talents on a man in a wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer who "lives off the flesh of young innocents." Last but not least is a young woman turning into a green, pulsating, nine-foot-tall wolf-pig in The Howling. Now that's entertainment...
...SHORT, THERE'S too much cardboard here, and not enough flesh and blood. A symbol only becomes significant in its power to move masses, but Ward's symbols are devoid of that power. Too often long speeches only rework cliches or lapse into sententiousness. Eager to stress the rift between the revolutionaries and the church, Ward sacrifices the richness of characters and motives to emphasize their polarization...
Throughout the land, college football stadiums yawn empty and forlorn, awaiting the contests of next fall. But in one important respect, next fall has already arrived: the recruiting war, the annual midwinter crusade to corner the market on high school football flesh, has begun. College coaches have abandoned their campuses and sallied forth to woo players from small-town fields and big-city playgrounds...
...Budget Director David Stockman first floated the idea of drastic foreign aid cuts, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reacted like a challenged general. A diplomatic compromise was soon reached: a 26% cut, down to a $4.8 billion 1982 outlay. "I am not going to pretend the cuts were a flesh wound," says State Department Spokesman William Dyess. "There was bleeding, but we support the cuts." Strategically important commitments to Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan Administration...
...Definitive," remarks Commentary Editor Robert Alter, "except for the omission of a computerized convector-current olfactory unit to waft about in seven pre-sequenced patterns the odor of rotten bread, potato peels and scorched flesh...