Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laundress. Midwestern men favor suits the color of plowed cornfields. The Western states bloom with cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. The California style, however, draws out the best in Lurie: ''Clothes tend to fit more tightly than is considered proper elsewhere, and to expose more flesh. . . Virtuous working-class housewives may wear outfits that in any other part of the country would identify them as medium-priced whores." Children's clothing conveys different kinds of signals, Lurie believes. Working-class children don suits and fancy dresses for a weekend outing. The middle-class kids...
...useless buckles on loafers, buttons on Oxford-cloth collars, straps on raincoats and safety pins on kilted skirts. These fastenings strike the author as powerful agents of emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world, or a personality, in grave danger of coming apart...
...firm, ripe breasts erect and eager. She thinks the clammy hands caressing her are her lover's--Poetic Justice!--but the Shape adjusts the bath water to scalding and repeatedly shoves her head in it, holding it out of the water long enough for us to see the flesh peeling off and the red and white blobby pulp beneath. Hot stuff! Then the Shape drills a cute little blonde nurse in the back with a scalpel, picking her up and holding her aloft as she wriggles on the end until the last, sad sigh when her feet relax and shoes...
What makes the Loeb show, directed by Sam Samuels, so pleasantly substantial is Samuels's choice of a setting--the lush flesh out the plot and characters with familiar details...
...that it merges medicine and prayer, symbolized by a 60-ft. bronze sculpture of joined hands at the facility's entrance. All doctors and nurses are required to take oaths to "exemplify Christlike character" and abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. While they minister to the flesh, specially trained "prayer partners" tend to the mind and spirit. Says Roberts: "We seek to saturate patient treatment in the atmosphere of the power of prayer, both medicine and prayer becoming a single and continuous...