Word: meat
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Whereas the first two Die Hard films made smart use of their enclosed locations, this one devolves into a skittish travelogue that ends up in Canada. Still, Willis' aggrieved burliness is always persuasive, and red-meat lovers will have an agreeably volatile two hours of fantasy-if, that is, they can keep one word out of their minds: militia. A scary scenario on that subject is doubtless being drafted for next summer's macho blockbuster...
Goya's picture of a butchered sheep is, if possible, more tragic still. The animal's flayed head seems to be witnessing its own death, in the form of two hunks of rib cage propped against one another, and the way Goya has rendered the structure of dark red meat and the spectral, yet dense and greasy white fat is both factual and haunting. These low mounds of form, bluntly placed against a background of no-space black, come out of the same sensibility that recorded the nameless piles of human bodies in The Disasters of War. This...
...They've found it frustrating to begin a course and avoid getting into the meat of the subject for [the] first two lectures because they don't know the finalenrollment...
...aristocratic atmosphere the newborn Union of 1901 hosted a zoo of stuffed animal heads, some of whose dusty outlines you can still see on the walls if you look carefully. "I don't think I could have eaten a meal there with all those heads, especially not one with meat in it," Buckley comments. Eventually the busts fell out of fashion, reminding us that an appropriately-lost memory here and there might not be that...
...grows through these disputes. Mike and I have been together for six years not because we harbor any illusions about each other (including Lezama's: my mother first called him "wonky-looking," not "Byronic," when I showed her a picture in tenth grade, and I myself have too much meat on my bones to look "poetically consumptive") but because we know and respect one another as we truly...