Although you could say the themes of Roth's book – bodily cravings, pushed to their limit – are part of the same spectrum, the other end of it maybe.
We're not talking about your run-of-the-mill sexy housewife looks, either, the kind that push bodily attributes rather than fashion boundaries.
"Hazmat," then, is a perfect title for McClatchy's fifth collection, which pushes this bodily focus to new extremes.
Mo took a few steps toward home before he was enveloped by catcher Russell Martin and his teammates, but then, in a spontaneous move, Jorge Posada pushed him bodily back to the mound before retiring with the other Yankees to their dugout, leaving Rivera alone with the crowd and the moment.
In addition to normalizing bodily content, she's pushing boundaries to afford other people moral and sexual freedom; by allowing herself to be policed, she broadens the scope of what's permissible.
Despite this the judge and court officials still had to push their way bodily through the crowds that had gathered around the door to gain entry to the court room.
Not only that, but the bodily fluids that gravity normally pushes down into the lower extremities will float up to the neck and head, causing headaches and uncomfortable pressure, potentially leading to vision problems due to swelling of the optic nerve.
Sometimes, though, surely an actor just wants to have fun — which explains Mr. Russell Beale's delicious return to the landscape of large-eyed double takes, outrageous costumes, and a bodily posture that at times pushes the stomach out so far that the actor's girth begins to resemble a prop all its own.
By now, Sorokin's cumulative literary grotesquerie — butcherings and bodily fluids, sadomasochism and cannibalism — has pushed every traditional Russian button.
But Földes pushes and warps the limits of bodily abstraction into something entirely different than Mapplethorpe or Carlsen.
