Part 1, a little disconcertingly, is set in 103 A.D. in the amphitheater of Rome, where two gladiators face off for the entertainment of Emperor Trajan: Without a sound the darting swooping strokes Fall on unguarded flesh... Far off, there thrills one faint, high scream.
With equal skill and familiarity they shoved needles in flesh as far from recognised acupuncture points as possible.
Cooke said he was excited by the chance to spread his message — stay in school and steer clear of the industry flesh peddlers — far and wide.
Yet the show itself was dramatic only in its use as a model of the totally tattooed Rick Genest, whose figure projected in a film, pearls glistening against the patterned flesh, was far more gripping than the clothes.
Given the huge amount of publicity given to bluefin tuna over the last few years, it's important to point out that what we're talking about here isn't bluefin, whose delicate flesh is far too valuable to be imprisoned in tins.
Constantly oozing in various directions, it is apparently able to respond to injury with striking functional reorganization, and can at times actually think itself into a new anatomic configuration, in a kind of word-made-flesh outcome far more characteristic of Lourdes than the National Institutes of Health.
Of course, it was never going to actually work, but what they do bring in the flesh is a far rawer excitement and edge than their recorded stuff so far might suggest.
The idea of "one flesh" union seems far less obviously intelligible than other "basic goods" like friendship, knowledge or religion.
In the flesh, Keith proves far less insane than his South-Park-does-Johnny-Rotten stage persona would suggest.
In the flesh she is far closer to Helen Hewitt, the gritty prison boss she portrayed in The Governor than the flirty leading lady of Tumbleweeds.
Even straight off a plane from New York, in the flesh, Graham looks far less weary - and much more youthful - than his recent on-screen characters.
