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...were impersonal. Moving ever so slowly, hanging by the knees from a partner's shoulders, the dancers stared blankly from zombie-like deadpans. Occasionally the master himself relaxed into a sneer, but for the most part it was only by the glistening of sweat or the trembling of a thigh or a bent knee that one could be sure the dancers were human, and not just sinuous, supple machines...

Author: By Margaret VON Szeliski, | Title: Experimental Dance | 3/20/1962 | See Source »

...dollars and his car key to my thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...survived, she would be another witness to the tragedy of the Bluebelle. "Oh, my God," stammered Harvey when he heard the news. "Why, that's wonderful." A few minutes later, he excused himself, slipped out of the hearing room, went to his motel, slashed his left thigh, his ankles and his throat with a double-edged razor blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sea: The Bluebelle's Last Voyage | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Ribicoff went to the operating room in University Hospital. Columbus, under heavy sedation and local anesthetics. From the thigh. Surgeon Saunders took a "split-thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operation for Nosebleed | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Even if Halaby were to play Saturday, Columbia would be favored over Harvard as much--if not more--than was Cornell, despite the fact that Chuck Reed will rejoin the squad this week. (Reed has been out with a bruised thigh. Halfback Hank Hatch, out for several weeks with mononucleosis, will not be ready until Dartmouth...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/17/1961 | See Source »

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