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...pushed her way forward to the red-carpeted greeting queue and handed him a garland. As she bent forward deferentially, as if to touch his feet, a sophisticated explosive device went off with a huge blast, triggered by a manual detonator. It killed him instantly, ripping into his torso and mutilating his face beyond recognition. It also killed at least 15 others. A policewoman lay dead with both legs severed. Nearby was a slain photographer, his camera still slung around his neck...
...straight line, a divining rod," learned how to fall down a flight of stairs in her classes; Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel) how to fall as if he had been shot. The kids who jazz-dance the night away are moving from the gut and the torso; those powerful thrusts began in her works...
...comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA CHOICE written on it and a dart board that displayed a drawing of a woman's breast, with her nipple as the bull...
...love of his fickle girlfriend, a rich, withered old man named Webster spends $1 million on plastic surgery; he trades faces with a young Adonis named Hans. But the girl still finds Webster repulsive, so he spends $2 million more for Hans' handsome torso. Webster is a big hit on Muscle Beach, but when he's in a swimsuit his spindly legs make his lady ill. So he squanders the last $3 million of his fortune on Hans' legs and one or two other appendages. Perhaps finally he can win his beloved's heart? No; she's eloped with Hans...
...year 2000: the U.S. and Canada, perhaps on the road to an association with Mexico; the Far East; and Europe -- the European Community -- which will continue to grow into a political union, beyond economic union. Europe, of course, is not the E.C. alone. The E.C. is just a torso. A wider network will be constructed with other European countries, not necessarily by making them members but perhaps through association treaties...