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...given' in De Kooning's art, allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns...
...poorest taste award" went to the raft "Quivering Thigh," whose crew, in a last-minute effort to gather poorest taste points, exposed themselves to spectators standing on the Weeks Bridge...
LIMBS. Artificial thigh bones made of titanium and other modern alloys are being developed, primarily by Japanese surgeons. Dr. Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow...
...convicted child molester in Connecticut's state prison at Somers reclines on a treatment table with an electrode wired to his upper thigh. Whenever pictures of naked children are flashed on a screen, he gets stinging shocks in his groin. At the Iowa Security Medical Facility, inmates who commit infractions like lying or swearing are given a shot of apomorphine, which brings on violent vomiting for 15 minutes or more. Intractable convicts transferred to the maximum-security Michigan Intensive Program Center near Marquette are put into solitary confinement for most of the time and can only "earn" better living...
Hardesty Park is a naturalistic comedy, more subtle than a full blown farce or a thigh slapping burlesque. It's a delicate and good-humored satire, the type of play that fits in nicely with the new wave in dramatic taste here. Many students, tired of the riddles of absurdist pieces or the flamboyance of outrageous gut-splitters have come to appreciate more comfortable, less taxing plays, in which authors clearly intend to provide audiences with an evening of thoughtful levity...