Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study in seersucker, points to a sign outside the manor and speaks of it as if to miss it is to overlook a whale...
...much more likely to say he is a conservative or a liberal, not a Liberal Democrat or a Socialist. If politics is the very heart of a country like the U.S., it is more like an artificial implant in Japan: perfectly capable of functioning, but not really the flesh and blood of the national character. No wonder the politicians must shout so much to be heard. ?By James Kelly. Reported by S. Chang/Tokyo
...Some 54% of those polled said they would vote for "an acceptable Democrat" against Reagan next year, the same percentage as in March. The proportion choosing Reagan rose only from 27% to 30%. "An acceptable Democrat," of course, is a faceless abstraction who at this point outpolls all the flesh-and-blood Democrats competing for the White House. On a question designed as a direct measure of Reagan's appeal, those who hope the President will not run for a second term outnumber those who hope he will, as they have in each of the last six surveys...
Television and radio have created a demand for rockers in the flesh. After three miserable seasons, the concert business is thriving again. The Police, who four years ago played to seven people in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will perform before 1 million fans this summer in 30 U.S. cities. They sold out New York's Shea Stadium in just five hours for an August concert. Frontier Booking, New Music's hottest agency, will put 20 bands on the road this summer, twice as many as last year. The Liverpool group A Flock of Seagulls, for instance, arrived last year planning...
...embrace these opposites is the meliorism of humor, which happily abounds in this novel. The author's favorite trick is the fast shuffle, the scrambling of conventional wisdom to produce a comic insight. Describing an unconsummated love affair, Tony says that "the spirit is willing but the flesh is strong." And this wayward narrator even pretends that being funny is not what he has on his mind at all. Objecting to the word, he plans "never to chuckle, neither do I wish to be the cause of others' doing so." On this point, as on so many others...