Word: fleshly
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...stand motionless in the darkened operating room gazing at the overhead monitors, Wolf places his thumbs and forefingers into small controls inside the console. Then, moving his hands much as he would if he were actually holding the instruments, he shows the robot how to grab a piece of flesh with the forceps and begin peeling it away from the chest wall...
...Like all good populists, Tanaka keeps campaigning, performing in his glass cage and pressing the flesh with fans. In March, more than 800 people came out to Takato, a town in the Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told...
...parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...
...It’s been evolving. It used to be that either Ryan or I would come in with a chord progression or melody, and then we would just flesh it out, changing it, adding new melodies. But now, for the next record, we have a regular rehearsal space we go to every day when we’re not on the road. We go there and just spontaneously play, and whatever happens happens. Ryan writes all the lyrics, and it’s something I really admire him for, because it’s tough to write lyrics that...
...shape of a crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco is all about: she's folk and she's punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over her 10-year career, all on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, based in Buffalo. Her most popular album, Dilate (1996), sold more than 500,000 copies. Her new CD, the double album...