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...Romanian soldiers who were trying to locate three briefcases containing numbers and access codes of the family's foreign bank accounts. After studying the photographic evidence, forensic experts at France's Carme Institute tentatively confirm this scenario. They note the lack of bullet entry marks on Ceausescu's torso, the small amount of blood on his body (suggesting that any gunshots he received came after his death) and lesions on his face resembling those suffered by victims of beatings...
...distress melodrama, she will eventually get that opportunity. Her target will be Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), a Wall Street commodities trader whose romantic intensity fascinates Megan at first, before she realizes he is a psychopath. He murders at random and for pleasure; after a kill, he swathes his torso in the blood from his latest victim's sweater. "Death is the greatest kick of all," he confides to Megan. "That's why they save it for last...
...ground, many with their ankles tied together with barbed wire. One is a boy of about three, too young to be a freedom fighter, too young to be a rebel, too young to be lying naked in the snow; another is a seven-month fetus on the torso of its disemboweled mother. But it was not just a slaughter of the innocents in Rumania last week. A few days later came another unforgettable image: the fallen dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed by a firing squad, a pool of blood by his head...
...have a nap," recalled O'Keeffe. "Then we'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me." Stieglitz shot some 300 of those pictures, and they constitute a statement far beyond the pleasure principle. From every angle, the long melancholy face radiates an unconventional beauty; the nude torso takes on the authority and bulk of sculpture. Before the onlooker, the model is gradually transformed into a work...
...were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto the beach, but there was an obstacle. It was half a human body. The head and shoulders were gone, the torso cut right away . . . Ah, it was awful...