Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alcoholism, mental illness they point to warnings by psychiatrists and sociologists that the consequences of these trends will be "ominous" and "dire" for the children growing up-in these broken homes. And when Mary Robison is not teaching English C at Harvard, she has made it her business to flesh out those troubling statistics in carefully crafted vignettes of family dynamics; what would happen to Holden Caulfield today, if he were in his early twenties...
...edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak.'' -By Stefan Kanfer
...more to appeal to in a teenage film than hormones. Risks Business exhibited promise beyond the usual hackneyed dialogue and childish antics, to which teenage audiences are so accustomed. Its well-developed fantasy motif, more importantly, indicated that producers finally may be getting away from the temptation of marketing flesh for flesh's sake...
...been lifted away, a team of workers would sift the debris for corpses and personal effects. Some bodies were sandwiched between floors and ceilings and could be retrieved only by cutting off an arm or a leg. Rescuers emerged carrying blood-soaked buckets filled with limbs and tattered flesh. The Marines kept insisting that several comrades might still be found alive in the basement, but such hopes seemed futile. By the end of the first day, the searchers had donned masks' to ward off the stench of death...
...recite two examples to provide the Dean with a sense of historical perspective. In 1960 a scandal broke in New Haven concerning a high school student, known only as "Suzie," who catered to the needs of the flesh of the students at the local university. The Yalies were ultimately apprehended under the statutory charge of "lascivious carriage." Accordingly, at The Game that year, the band formed a rickshaw, which the announcer explained as "a rickshaw, otherwise known as a lascivious carriage, to commemmorate 'The World of Suzie Wong', who opened in New Haven this year." The Band then played...