Word: torsional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...
...high-profile Swiss Army name for other products. A division of the Connecticut-based Forschner Group is starting to market a small shelf of quality wares designed to march in step with the knife's popularity. So far they include the sunglasses ($115), featuring a "precision-fit torsion system" that prevents the frames from falling off the face, and the Swiss Army Watch ($95). The new products have already generated almost $2.5 million in sales this year. Says Forschner chairman Harry Thompson: "The idea is to endlessly build a base on which the knife can thrive." Not to mention Victorinox...