Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents have bought him. He has had surgery three more times since April to separate bone pieces that closed the gap and joined prematurely. So far, his right shin is stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody out of the room...
...mortal shadows of Calla Lily, 1984. The straightforward but unreal quality of the S-M images is there again in his portrait of Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984 -- two hairless heads, one black, one white, an uncanny feeling built from blunt facts. After a while, even the taut compositions of Mapplethorpe's portraits start to look like another form of bondage...
Psychologist and Author Rita Freedman of Scarsdale, N.Y., sees the emergence of what she calls fattism, an inclination to associate thinness with prettiness and goodness, and obesity with lassitude and lack of discipline. The way to salvation is, in Barsky's ironic words, a "tanned, trim, taut, toned body" that will be an objet d'art, a masterpiece to be "treasured, meticulously inspected and painstakingly maintained in peak condition." Unfortunately for most Americans, who tend to be groaners and sweaters, that remains an unattainable ideal...
...have an idea of a garden. It is the place where we wish we were, where we are at our best: generous, fertile, humble and at peace. For some the vision may be exquisitely formal, a garden of thought and geometry, traced with tulips and a perfectly taut hedge. For others it is wild and artless, with shaggy trees and hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like...
Beside the intrepid, naked reporter crouches another man. A big man. A man with the taut flanks and self-assured ease of a man who could only be lax team captain Buddy Bixford. The men crouch, together in the alleyway. There is silence...