Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aristotle's answer was that pity and terror purged the emotions and left the heart light. Freud thought stories of "the uncanny" released repressed anxiety-real toads come out to play in imaginary gardens. A modern German theologian, Rudolf Otto, was convinced that the goose flesh people feel at horror movies was the symptom of primitive religious experience. But a close look at the history of the fear trip-as Pop-Sociologist Les Daniels demonstrates in this witty catalogue of Who's Who in Horror-suggests more immediate historical reasons...
...have conducted a random, although modest, survey of Harvard-Radcliffe students and discovered just one type of person who can tell a story, albeit weak, about Central Square. This type turned 18 before December of 1972--when the military started relying entirely on volunteers to flesh out its ranks--and he had to amble on down to the fringes of Central Square to register for the draft. He remembers City Hall, where the draft cards were issued, as a tabular and turreted brick fortress with rows of arched windows through which he got a sidewise view of neon wriggles...
Admissions is not an exact science and officials say they use recommendations, school reports and interviews to fill out the objective data of test scores, class rank and grades to make a flesh-and-blood picture of a candidate...
...Groove Tube, 6:15 and 9:30 p.m., weekend showing at 2:45 p.m.; and Flesh Gordon, 7:45 p.m., weekend showing...
...find no exit wounds on X rays and photos of his back or the rear or left side of his head. A small hole in the rear of Kennedy's skull, they say, is clearly an entrance wound; part of the bone is pushed inward. Discoloration of flesh and the lack of jagged skin edges similarly identify the back wound as one of entrance...