Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
...swim here, and just last week, there was a physican talking about the different bone structure of Blacks," McCluskey says with irony...
...songs and donning and doffing their sun caps in time to a melody that crackles out of a tiny cassette recorder. Nobody is enjoying the field-hockey game as much as they are the bright afternoon. "They don't really know very much about the game," notes Arpad von Bone, a Dutch trainer intensely scrutinizing penalty corners. "But they have a delegation of children here to raise flags for every country. For Holland, they even had tulips! It's fantastic!" True amateurs...
...brilliant morning: the Netherlands had the foresight to pack orange parasols. Most of the athletes' costumes were as summery as the straw skimmers sported by the French, though the Australians must have been sweating under their dry-as-a-bone cattleman coats. A few lampshade headdresses competed with several styles of burnooses. But all the world's colors mixed together looked muted next to the wondrous columns of gold and the silky rainbow ranks of Koreans...
Doctors saved the leg by implanting a steel bar from Bilozerchev's knee down ! to his heel. Two months later, Dr. Sergei Mironov, who treats virtually all top athletes and performers in Moscow, inserted an external fixator to realign the bones. The contraption consisted of metal rings used to support pins that screwed the bone fragments together. When he tried to train, Bilozerchev favored his left leg so badly that he damaged the tissue in his right ankle. In December 1986 he underwent surgery to correct that problem...