Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as animal and human corpses decomposed in the open air, the threat of contamination increased, and with it the specter of cholera. Meanwhile, rats scurried around the dead bodies, awakening fears of bubonic plague. For days, vultures and wild-eyed pariah dogs roamed through the piles of rotting flesh, feasting...
...like birds shot from the sky. In their midst were real birds, vultures flapping their wings and shrieking at the wild-looking dogs to keep their distance. The dogs growled and waited their chance; when the vultures swooped away, the dogs would charge in and tear off pieces of flesh. Roaming through the streets, rescuing the dead from the predators, were rifle-toting soldiers of the Indian army, who were joined by volunteer vigilantes carrying long staves...
...plan, presented to the President and the press last week by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in the form of a chart-studded, 262-page booklet (with two fat volumes still to come), puts more flesh than ever before on ideas that would-be tax reformers have been kicking around since the 1950s. It gives Americans their clearest idea yet of who might be helped and who hurt by a thoroughgoing rewrite of tax codes aimed at trading the elimination of most exemptions, deductions and preferences for deep slashes in tax rates...
...people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that someone who can fly has to crawl across a shaking floor instead of flying across...
...Crouchback or Charles Ryder might have had such plaintive thoughts about their ignoble times. Wilson interjects such commentary to underscore the point that the assemblages of traits and mannerisms that are his characters are too confused or corrupt for weighty contemplation. Wilson is forbearing about the sins of the flesh, while the transgressions against reason are greeted with disdain. Conservative authority is the secret hero of this book; hapless liberalism and its freebooting institutions are the goats. The result is a sharp irony concisely expressed by an envious KGB agent: "How could a man reach Blore's position...