Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denying the other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw and burn flesh, veins, bone and marrow." His harsh prescription was an unwitting forecast of the horror that was to come...
...with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait of his new adversary. The thrust of Thatcher's counsel was that Gorbachev, while still a Soviet and a Communist, was fresh and intelligent, a potentially major improvement over being dim and dying. The Prime Minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner...
With the transition from elementary to high school in the second act, the play witnesses a surge of physical energy. The songs become more explicit!" sexual in tone, the conflict between spirit and flesh more prominent. All of this makes for some intersting satire, including a rendition of "Mad Bomber" by the guys' physical education class and "Saving Ourselves for Marriage" by their female counterparts. By far the most successful satirical seene, though, is the high school dance, in which the mins don black sunglasses and rock in doo-wop harmony...
...show, and the Metropolitan's Musicians and the Uffizi Bacchus, which are. The Bacchus is detached, down to the last dirty fingernail on his pudgy hand: not a god, but a pouting, weary-eyed model in costume, his crown of vine leaves rendered with sparkling exuberance, his flesh slack and tallowy, and half the fruit bruised or rotten...
...problems. So if they don't go to Rhode Island, they go to the Worcesfer Centrum Which is fine for all the students at Worcesfer High, who immediately buy 1,000 tickets each and help them back to us for 10 times the original price and a pound of flesh for good measure...