Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horror stories give me nightmares, and what I see in nightmares are faces. Mostly of kids. One is the face of a kid who is rolling over and over on the ground, trying to extinguish the burning napalm, his flesh turning to charcoal underneath...
...concert itself was euphoric: the Band was in perfect form, and as the evening progressed the crowd surged down into the area in front of the stage, jamming it tight in a mass of wriggling, dancing ecstatic human flesh. The Band played for more than an hour, and at the end of the concert one of them told the crowd, "We're going to tell all our friends in Woodstock that Boston is one of the best places in the world to play music...
...have tried to make the Catholic universe of evil palpable, tangible, odorous. If theologians provided an abstract idea of the sinner, I gave him flesh and blood...
FRENCH Author François Mauriac not only supplied his characters with flesh and blood, but made the flesh ache and the blood shiver with fear as the sinner stood alone before God, smitten with a sense of guilt and remorse. In his poems and his plays, in his 23 novels and his political musings for Le Figaro and L'Express, the Nobel-prizewinning author explored the nature of human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious...
...first glance, the 4-ft.-long, buff-colored fossilized log that Behunin discovered seemed not at all remarkable. It lay in a countryside of desert valleys in central Utah that 150 million years ago was a lush tropical shore along an inland sea, inhabited by huge flesh-eating dinosaurs. The area has thus yielded a rich supply of plant and animal fossils. Examining a specimen of the fossil under a microscope, Paleobotanist William D. Tidwell of Brigham Young University recognized the unmistakable cellular structure of the palm...