Word: excisional
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All the time Seurat is thinking, editing, adjusting. Throughout his career, his efforts are directed to refracting what he sees through what he knows. He quotes Poussin, Ingres, classical marbles, Han figurines; the boy hollering in the water in Une Baignade, Asnieres was once a classical Triton blowing a conch...
There are three degrees of the procedure: sunna (traditional), which involves cutting off the tip of the clitoris; excision, the removal of the clitoris and the labia minora; and infibulation, the removal of the clitoris, the labia minora and labia majora. With infibulation, the pubic area is stitched up after...
He was not, of course, only an eye. The intellectual discourse of Velazquez's art took in allegory as well, and the details are never insignificant. When he painted the flamboyant and overweening Olivares on his rearing horse, in front of a city (perhaps the Basque town of Fuenterrabia) that...
Walsh's effort to try North on the broad charge of conspiracy was probably doomed from the start. For months the special prosecutor navigated between the fears of the intelligence community that North would expose secrets and Gesell's insistence that North be given great latitude in his use of...
The medical detectives found a number of abuses. Darsee had recorded data from tests on dogs that required the injection of radioactive substances and the excision of the animals' hearts. Yet Braunwald and Kloner discovered from tissue samples that the animals had never been injected, and at least one...