Word: breast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That woman," said fastidious Dr. Yves Evenou of his unlovely mistress Simone Deschamps one day last week, "horrifies me." The doctor's horror was easy enough for the police to understand, for Simone had just plunged a knife into the breast of his wife Marie-Claire, and Marie was dead. This was the truth but not, it turned out, the whole truth...
...seems less like an explosion in a shingle factory than a rigorous analysis of reality in terms of planes rather than lines. In such works as Girl with Mandolin, where the figure and background have been broken into sharp-edged, sculptural planes, with the mandolin and model's breast distorted to carry the viewer's eye around the bend, there is today a kind of elegance and even a sensual formalism...
...highest moment of her life came when she was presented to Victoria, Queen not only of England but of everything that Louise Mackay most admired. In Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny...
...other matters, Gillies is a perfectionist. He has no use for the cancer surgeon who removes a woman's breast and suggests no replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic...
Time trials for the 50-yard freestyle and the one-meter diving preliminaries will be run off this morning at 10; 200-yard butterfly time trials, semi-finals in the 50-free, 200-yard backstroke trials, 220-yard freestyle trials, 100-yard breast-stroke trials, one-meter diving qualifiers exhibition, 200-yard individual medley trials, 400-yard freestyle relay trials will be held this afternoon beginning at 2:30. The finals in all these events will be run off tonight, beginning...