Word: fleshly
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...immediately on the nervous system." Picasso gave him the artistic vocabulary to do that. Bacon claimed it was this "brutality of fact" that linked their work. But Bacon clearly wins in the cruelty stakes, especially in his nudes. His Lying Figure (1969) is an upside-down mound of desiccating flesh with a needle in its arm. On the facing wall, Picasso's Large Nude in a Red Armchair (1929), with head back and legs daintily crossed, looks benignly bourgeois by comparison...
Millions does not feature flesh-crazed zombies, dissipated junkies, or murderous roommates...
...book jacket photo of the author suggests that Auslander marks a break from the Jewish writer prototype. Roth and Allen are—like Kafka was before them—flesh-and-blood definitions of the Yiddish “oysgedart” (emaciated). The broad-shouldered Auslander, by contrast, looks like the kind of guy who could hold his own in a bar-fight...
...vast majority of injuries are to arms and legs left vulnerable even as body armor is protecting vital organs. The amputation rate of 6% of wounded soldiers is twice that of earlier wars. But in addition, doctors are seeing new injuries, some of them inconspicuous compared with the shredded flesh of bombing victims. Traumatic brain injury occurs when the shock from an explosion damages neurological fibers. Soldiers may survive a blast with scarcely a cut, only to find over time that they suffer coordination and memory loss, dizziness, insomnia. Some have to learn to walk again--or to recognize their...
...with such a dark disposition, but there it is--and with his intricate but unfussy prose, and you understand the gathering power of his work. Perowne finds majestic pleasure even in the simple act of shaving with his "extravagantly disposable triple-bladed razor ... drawing this industrial gem over familiar flesh sharpens his thoughts." Just keep in mind that blades against flesh will come up again in the story...