Word: fleshing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cable network.) On the other hand, it's a big step up from oblivion. Remember Jimmy the Greek and Al Campanis, two guys who got a one-way ticket to showbiz oblivion after making impolitic remarks about race. On the basis of this admittedly small survey, transgressions of the flesh seem more easily forgiven by the American public than bigotry...
...Jardin and, with Emma, raised a new family that would include my grandmother, Matilda Jardin Blackman. A pious, churchgoing Mason by the time he reached his 40s, Christoph never told my father's family that he had left a child in Hawaii--or that Alexander was, in fact, his flesh and blood...
...torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African American, on the way home from a family reunion, had apparently...
...sing about broken hearts; they were going to demand respect, and even spell it out for you if there was some part of that word you didn't understand. As Franklin declares on Do Right Woman--Do Right Man: "A woman's... not just a plaything/ She's flesh and blood just like a man." Respect also became a civil rights anthem...
Warhol was the neon sign of the times, flashing SEX, GOSSIP, DEATH. His hunger for the machinery and trappings of fame thrust him beyond painting into filmmaking, with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will...