Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making no attempt at emotion. Nevertheless, they are--another irony--by far the most expressive. Maillol, who admired Egyptian sculpture enormously, used to speak of finding the most significant motion in the greatest stillness. "Immobility of the body," as he himself put it, "does not mean immobility of the flesh...
...show that it knows the genuine article when it comes along. It came−a sweeping constellation of exalted royalty, heralded by the solemn magnificence of equerries, secretaries, aides and ambassadors−and the U.S. found that Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, not symbols alone, but flesh-and-blood people, respond with the same human warmth and simple good will that Americans hold out to them...
...long banned Sphinx, now owned by Mrs. Alfred G. Kay of Palm Beach, Fla., was visibly stronger in flesh tones than mystery (see cut). Recalled Sir Gerald: "I put a devil of a lot of hard work into that picture. It took me four years, on and off, to paint. The model who posed for it would not have been everyone's cup of tea. She had a stocky figure, long-limbed and healthy looking, but no grace or elegance. It was an arduous pose, and she behaved like an archangel though she ached like the devil afterwards...
...control posts at airfields ... It is useless to create control posts to watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even more emphasis to a brace of visiting British M.P.s. "Bombers are obsolete," he said. "You might as well throw them on the fire. You cannot send human flesh and blood to fight things like that." To keep up the psychological momentum, the Russians announced at week's end the successful testing of a new hydrogen warhead for a guided missile...
...Communist, rewardingly well acted. Again and again it vitalizes the issues at the same time that-with small talk and small children, dinner-party fiascos and marital spats-it humanizes the atmosphere. What it does not do-what a message play so seldom can do-is to create flesh-and-blood characters who really seem to shape and chart their own lives...