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Word: fleshly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Leather Turns Soft and Sexy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

MEET ARTHUR PARKER. He's a traveling sheet-music salesman with a lot of dreams. He dreams of his own music store and an escape from the drudgery of everyday life. He dreams of a beautiful woman who will revel with him in the pleasures of the flesh. Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Thirties | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

...boatmaster told a boy who was a neighbor of mine to take a hammer and hit me on the head, so that they might eat my flesh. The boy told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: We Go Together in One Boat | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

There's something for health nuts and Harvard nuts, Tolkien nuts and television nuts. You can get a big glossy of Bo Derek in her birthday suit, which has nothing else aside from thin lines etched against her flesh and numerals for each month. If it's July, this must...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Bo, Buns and the Vineyard: Hundreds of Ways to Keep Time | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...individual personality and consistently convey it. And the other actors on whom the show's believability rides--Maja Hellmold as Abigail, Jennifer Devine as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, and Jay Mattlin as Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned fanatical, forces everyone in the courtroom to bend to his will by pure dominance of personality...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fire and Ice | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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