Word: torso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the experts whose job it is to hawk this film to U.S. moviegoers shook their heads mournfully after casing the well-set-up, well-exposed Granger torso. If Cleopatra, they decided, had only given Apollodorus the suggestion of a royal high sign for a command performance-no matter how far off-screen-it would have given the picture Sex. However that may be, and however well it makes out as spectacle, Caesar and Cleopatra is vintage Shaw: a wise and winning comedy, beautifully played...
Pictures of her torso have adorned the snouts of U.S. fighter planes over Buna; U.S. sailors named her "the girl we'd like to have waiting for us in every port." In the five years since Producer-Aviator Howard Hughes found her in a chiropodist's office, she has been ardently and endlessly photographed in silks and rags, in bathing suits and blankets, lying, sitting, lifting, leaning, dangling, stretching...
...young man named William Ernest Henley, son of a Gloucester bookseller, appeared before Lister and placed his life in the experimenter's hands. At 25, Henley was dying of tuberculosis. The disease had settled in his lower legs, which were short and withered, although his torso and thighs were those of a giant. One foot had already been amputated; London surgeons wanted to amputate the other...
...anthropology, has changed considerably since the 1890s. The modern girl is taller (5 ft. 3½ in.), longer in the leg, thicker in the waist (26.4 in.), and has slightly heavier hips (37.4 in.) and legs than the 1890 girl. But, thanks to a bigger bust (33.9 in.) and torso, her figure looks better proportioned, at least to the anthropologists...
...faculty about taking a week's vacation before the summer started. The recent outburst of summer sun (followed by the weekend's icy blasts, fellow rebels), brought out the "beach boy" complex in some of the unit. Henry J. Shellar (the Bruin) was seen sunning his tremendous torso last week. Max (the Operator) Richards looms also as a tan seeker...