Word: fleshing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press credentials and a ticket on Air Force One--riding as the magazine pool reporter in the great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
...fashion reveals much about the social situation of the characters in the play. At one point, La Marquise de Mertueil remarks that La Presidente de Tourvel is a frump, with her "bodice up to her ears in case you might catch a glimpse of a square inch of flesh." The tense music and occasional operatic singing that bridges the scenes is also a nice touch, and prevents the pauses between scenes from becoming awkward...
There's an old saying that you always get back to basics. This wisdom couldn't be truer for Bill Gates, who has come home to mother Harvard roughly 20 years after he dropped out to found Microsoft corporation. Well, come home in spirit, if not in flesh. For along with Microsoft executive vice president Steven A. Ballmer '77 (who is a Crimson Editor), Gates has donated a healthy $25 million to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS...
Clinton, who stopped long enough to slam down a cup of chowder, press the flesh with local VIPs and let 20,000-plus supporters hear his strained voice, had western Massachusetts ogling Sunday night...
...cuddlier stages) incontinence and all-around fumble-thumbed incompetence. Hence the need to set childhood off from adulthood as a condition requiring major investments of resources and energy on the part of all who have survived it. Making full-blown humans out of 7-lb. lumps of flesh is not a job for a slow-witted species: it takes a village, as the lady said, not a village idiot...