Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall), generally abstract creations, welding together metal bars, sheets, wheels, gears and grilles in a brilliant use of open form that, while long underestimated by the buying public, won him ranking by critics among such better-known sculptors as Calder, Moore and Giacometti; of a fractured skull suffered in an auto accident; in Albany...
...brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon can get at them through an incision in the neck...
...month, two small boys passing through a eucalyptus grove near Badajoz stumbled upon two shallow graves, one containing the corpse of a man whose face and fingers were disfigured. In the other lay the half-naked body of a woman. Both had been murdered by heavy blows on the skull...
...canvases, then blasting them with her .22-cal. rifle. Now that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk than any statue in the park. Her Sappho, lounging beneath a tree fruited with a skull, slouches like an Eve who has waited in vain for Adam a thousand years. Or France's Arman, 37. He accumulates things like a surplus-parts dealer and freezes them in polyester. His transparent collages in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's current assemblage show, contain...
Thousands of political opponents died in his secret police dungeons, mysterious "auto accidents" and "suicides." There were electric chairs for slow electrocution, another many-armed electrical device attached by tiny screws inserted into the skull, a rubber collar that could be tightened to sever a man's head, plus nail extractors, scissors for castration, leather-thonged whips and small rubber hammers. P.A. systems in the torture rooms carried every blood-curdling scream to other prisoners waiting their turn. If Trujillo favored variety, he also favored volume. One October night in 1937, he ordered his army to eliminate all Haitian...