Word: torso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scalpel and Torso. Brödel taught his students as he had been taught in Germany. James F. Didusch, who succeeded him at Hopkins, was his first pupil. On the first day, Brödel gave Didusch a scalpel and the torso of a woman, told him to begin dissecting, drawing each layer as he came to it. Didusch still remembers how surprisingly tough the skin was. Next day a girl joined the class. "Here," said Brödel, "let [her] have half the corpse...
Gypsy Wildcat (Universal) shows bosomy Maria Montez once more exerting her peculiarly effective brand of animal magnetism. But one thing is new in this overdressed spectacle. Instead of South Sea Islanders or Arabians, Miss Montez is surrounded by gypsies and feudal barons. However, she still weaves her torso in the same seductive fashion, eyes muscular Jon Hall with the same old sultry yearning. To show his gratitude, Hall swims moats. Most original use of Technicolor: a close-up in which the entire screen is pink with Miss Montez' heaving breast...
...Eaters. The 100,000,000-year-old cockroach, which outlived the dinosaur and many other prehuman contemporaries, has evolved into a superbug of almost incredible staying power. Its hard, slippery body is hard to grasp; its flat torso permits it to squeeze into the smallest cracks; its nimble legs give it unparalleled speed and shiftiness; its skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known...
...Hoffman started his career with little more than a manly torso and a desire to make it manlier. He bought his first set of bar bells in 1923, was so pleased that he soon bought out the manufacturer with his earnings in an oil-furnace business. Since then he has devoted himself to making the world muscle-minded, usually at a profit, sometimes at a considerable loss...
Szell lives with his striking, chestnut-haired Czech wife in a Manhattan apartment so scrupulously kept that visitors are almost afraid to sit down in it. A devout gourmet, he frequently terrifies his wife by tying an apron around his muscular torso and assuming autocratic control of the kitchen. He resents all imputations of artistic temperament. Says George Szell: "There is nothing interesting about me. I have no hobbies. I am not melancholy. My accounts are all in perfect order. I am so damn normal...