Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strange odors sometimes wafted from the grimy yellow brick house in the Tioga section of North Philadelphia, smells that neighbors likened to burning flesh. Then there were the odd noises: hammering at all hours, and what sounded like an electric saw and other power tools. Heavy-metal music blared day and night. But no one suspected the horrors that Philadelphia police discovered last week . when they raided the house owned by Gary Heidnik, 43, a self-anointed "bishop" of his own church who flashed rolls of money and drove expensive cars...
...bolted from Heidnik's 1987 Cadillac as it was parked in North Philadelphia. She telephoned the police, claiming she had been held since November. Rivera reported that Heidnik whipped the women with a stick and fed them a mixture of dog food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey state forest near Camden...
Time does fly. Not long ago, Hollywood's lone-wolf hero was touring neighborhoods, pressing the flesh and even puckering up in a successful last- minute campaign for the $200-a-month job of mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. Next week Mayor Clint will celebrate the first anniversary of his victory...
Berenson conducted himself with what he called an "invincible passion for independence." This is not to say he achieved it. Colin Simpson's Artful Partners concedes that B.B.'s spirit may have been willing but that his flesh was weak. The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses. There are also numerous examples that suggest Berenson relaxed his standards or changed his mind to accommodate Duveen and his brothers, who, as Simpson writes, were...
Dave, a.k.a. "Birdboy," spends hours with these toothpick bones, sorting and classifying, scratching his fingers as he polishes and examines. Eventually these ossified puzzles flesh out as the vivid watercolor aviary that decorates his room. I envy his tangible academic world--intellectual pursuits he can touch and feel...