Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though distant and grainy, this photograph of a Chinese man standing down a tyrannical regime is the most extraordinary image of the year. It is flesh against steel, mortality against the onrush of terror, the very stuff of courage. TIME presents 20 pages of other amazing pictures from a most astounding year...
Something is wrong in Culver City, and Wheeler (Richard Nash) must fix it. This situation for Wheeler is critical because he has developed flesh-consuming skin condition. The city is literally "eating [him] alive...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...
...Sandinistas' elevation to power. Since winning the nomination of the United Nicaraguan Opposition (U.N.O.) coalition last September, she has managed to improve on a thoroughly inept start. But her campaign still lacks both substance and imagination. Dona Violeta does not discuss issues. She appears. She smiles. She presses flesh. She departs. Her stump speeches are long on teary references to her late husband and short on almost everything else...
FIGHT FOR US. A saintly priest is gunned down and mutilated. A basketball team is massacred. A female rebel is raped by a vigilante commandant; when the commandant is killed, his lieutenant carves open the dead man's chest and eats his flesh. These horrifying events might seem the stuff of slasher movies, but according to Filipino director Lino Brocka, they are real. His film, based in part on testimony collected by Amnesty International, charges that human rights violations are more widespread under President Corazon Aquino than they were during the Marcos regime, which Brocka had long criticized. Fight...