Word: torso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High point in entertainment is from 6 to 7 p.m., when the big musicals rotate parts of their shows; after that, there is special entertainment at intervals all evening. A big draw is Blonde Colette Lyons, who tosses her torso around, shouting lines like: "I'm a sport with the boys at the Fort" or "I'm the toast of the boys at the Post." Anything raw on the performers' part is out. Betweenwhiles, the boys dance, or sit eating and drinking (generally milk...
Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
Twentieth Century-Fox's boon to the warbound tourist is Song of the Islands, a Technicolored musical which sets two of the studio's finest torso-bearers (Betty Grable & Victor Mature) down on one of the lesser Hawaiian islands, a curious place, half paradise, half fruit stand. There blonde Miss Grable, who is especially well organized for paradisal parts, doffs the sweater she has lived in at school on the U.S. mainland and resumes her role as the community's No. 1 lei girl...
...Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...
...Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor Chiapasco's favorites were the models of the ecstatic features of a Japanese who had committed harakiri, the utter despair on the face of a woman murdered by her husband, the exquisite torso of a young girl run over by an omnibus on a Buenos Aires street...