Word: genuing
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...Apostle, a complex, cantankerous drama that Duvall wrote, directed, stars in and--after all the studios turned down the $5 million project--paid for. This renegade Pentecostalist has the spiel and showmanship to fill a tent or a temple; when E.F. talks, people listen. "I'm a genu-wine, Holy Ghost, Jesus-filled preachin' machine this mornin'!" He can woo a dying man to the Lord, but he can't heed his own gospel. He menaces his frazzled wife (Farrah Fawcett) and clubs a rival with a baseball bat; when the man falls into a coma, E.F. shows no regret...
...Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh." Yet Pepys' journals are far more than an account of appetites satisfied or denied; along his way the diarist recounts the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague and the Great Fire...
Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...
...Missing: Genu (L.), an anatomical region commonly known as the knee; still extant figuratively in the kitchen, as in "housewife's _______," and in the movie house, as in Claire's _______; also still virile verbally in compounds like " _______ jerk " and " _______deep " and in relating measurement, as in "_______ -high to a grasshopper"; but generally not seen in the flesh since around 1970, when it was flaunted by trend-trippers from Carnaby Street to cannery...
...fact, it is not. Skirt lengths, like their wearers, will continue to come in all altitudes. Neither do the new, higher-hemmed styles resemble the thigh-flashers of the hip-hugging mini revolution. Perhaps reacting to Paris' long, sizzling summer, the designers of the new short look have genu- flected toward comfort, stressing coolness, looseness, flounce...