Word: fleshly
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...Monday in Los Angeles, he will call for "a new global alliance to defeat terror" and advocate a tenfold increase in funds spent on finding and eliminating unguarded nuclear, chemical and biological materials left over from the Soviet Union. And on Thursday in New Hampshire, Dean plans to flesh out his economic proposals...
...surely as a bullet rips through a victim's flesh ... it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger." Not bad, right? It could pass for Raymond Chandler, but that's actually a line from Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2; $49.99), a literate, atmospheric video game about a good cop with very bad luck who gets tangled up with a bloody underworld gang war and a really good-looking lady assassin. The mood is pure noir: rain-splashed puddles, black overcoats and soulful cello solos...
...young twenty-something has amassed a lot of power over teens, though his father would still like to describe his flesh-and-blood as your average young guy: “If he couldn’t bounce it, catch it, throw it or date it or eat it, he had no interest in it?...
...mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...
Slater warns Wode-Douglass that Chubb is a hoaxer and that McCorkle is merely a phantom. This seems to explain everything until Chubb tells her the almost convincing story of how McCorkle--powerful, angry and nearly 7 ft. tall--turned up one day in the flesh. Is McCorkle flesh and blood or a projection of Chubb's imagination? And since Chubb's own verse is mush, how could he possibly have been the real author of McCorkle's stunning poems--the work of a man who had "ripped up history and nailed it back together with its viscera...