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...encountered rickets. The darkest-skinned young male hunters were so crippled that they could not keep up; the darkest-skinned females died in childbirth because of pelvic deformities. Those who happened to be lighter skinned, of both sexes, survived...
Lindner is a pungent social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
Necessities & Joys. How she fashioned the fluidly muscular style that made her the founding mother of modern dance "is one of the mysteries," says Leatherman, "but her approach to it is plainly visible in the technique itself. Many of its basic elements are centered in the pelvic and genital regions, and Martha's bluntness in teaching them shocks the innocent." She teaches her "virile gestures" at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan, where housewives and movie stars glory in "the miracle of the foot." "One must be ruthless to teach," she says, and students have learned...
...Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center earlier this month, the delivery was perfectly normal in all but one detail: on its way to the birth canal, the baby's head had to push aside a transplanted kidney located on the right side of the mother's pelvic area. Neither mother nor baby was bothered a bit, but that minor deviation from standard procedure marked a major problem that had worried doctors all through Bonnie Glidden's pregnancy...
...sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...