Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascinating phenomena of power to watch the adrenalin build even as the flesh wants to sag. An aide going over the final version of the speech with Reagan was suddenly struck by the fact that this 70-year-old man "was enjoying the job of being President far more than he thought he would." The observer mused to himself that "few men get this special sense of satisfaction in their lives, the chance to do what they have been thinking and talking about for so long." Time and time again, in making decisions on budget and tax cuts, in giving...
...homosexual love as aberrent behavior. Still, there is an attraction to homosexuality--most who share in it would call it perverse, while admitting to it nonetheless--the thought of what the other way must feel like, the curious reviling of the opposite sex and almost narcissistic indulgence in the flesh of your own: it can grate on libidos and unhinge nagging emotions of doubt and longing. Straight is cool, of course, but the other path has yet to be explored...
...create homosexuals as they are? But such an attempt must overcome a hoary stumbling-block of philosophical disputation--the problem of free will versus necessity. A view that sees sexual preferences as determined by the omnipotent creator absolves the guilt and blame attached to homosexuality: all human flesh then fits into the natural order of His creation. But this theological determinism deprives us of our moral worth as human beings--for we have no hand in the choice. Such a different conception of God and the universe removes any chance for the play of earthly powers to intervene...
...suspect that being fatherless leaves a woman with a taste for the fanatical. Having grown unsheltered, having never seen in the familiar flesh the embodiment of the ancient image of authority, a girl can be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme. A fatherless girl thinks all things possible and nothing safe. I don't want that for Linda. I had Cyprian, but he fathered me as if we were both bodiless, for our connection had nothing in it of the flesh. But I will sleep with Leo, Linda will know that. And Leo will -know that...
...still not possible to say more than that there is no reason to think she cannot. Some of her movies have sunk out of sight, and one, Peter Fonda's Wanda Nevada, was never released. Director Malle guided her brilliantly through Pretty Baby, a film opulent of flesh but lacking the bone structure that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures.) She was ridiculous...