Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flesh. Handcuffs on the wrists of one prisoner were tightened so much that blood came through the pores. Hands and feet often swelled to unimaginable proportions and turned black. Jaws, noses, ribs, teeth and limbs, the prisoners charged, were deliberately broken and left unset. The sick and wounded were left in their own excrement for days on end. Fan belts or lengths of rubber turned buttocks of beaten prisoners into raw flesh. Sergeant Don MacPhail said that he was hung from a tree over three fresh graves and beaten with sticks. He was told that he would...
...into the corpse. The result is a fast-moving, mildly absorbing but less than illuminating afternoon of light reading. No new light is shed on the matter, and the narrative shares the traits of its subject to a fault. Absence of mind may be appealing enough in the intoxicated flesh. But mindless prose about mindless protagonists, mindlessly cavorting in and out of bed from Cambridge to California, on this, that and and the other variant of a chemical lobotomy is next-of-kin to sheer trash...
...CRAZIES is the latest effort of George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead. That ghoulish little saga of resurrected flesh-eaters stalking western Pennsylvania has been horrifying eager audiences at midnight shows for two years now; it even received a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Romero operates out of Pittsburgh, making his films on the cheap. Rather like Skinflick Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre...
...wisdom. The departure from bourgeois morality lies in the deeper implication that the characters' ecstasy is the fleeting and only hope in a desparate world where women demand that their men be fortresses of strength and men seek protection in a fortress that is their own dominance over female flesh. (Those who decry the film as sexist fail to recognize that the film stylizes and includes all the degeneracies of society, sexism included...
...scholars rarely explore, yet their unusualness makes it easy to sustain interest in them for a few pages. His thumbnail sketches of those sorts of topics illustrate an implicit thesis about the way things were in Victorian England, or wherever. These essays don't prove his thesis, but they flesh it out, and they are, as a group, a remarkably pleasant way of presenting supporting evidence. Far pleasanter for example, than the charts and tables historical demographers are forced to rely on while they trace the history of the nuclear family, or whatever their subject...