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...more complete selection of chocolate creations, check out Kron's Chocolates at the theater cafe in Chicago's Water Tower Place shooping mall. Kron's offers--in milk or semi-sweet chocolate--a female torso for $50, a leg for $60, and a telephone for $25. They also have golfballs, which come in white or regular chocolate, at four for $5; and several words--at $22 each, LOVE and NOEL, and a $34 THANKS--in alternating light and dark chocolate...
Mcllroy's ruses worked in part because he had a real disability, a neurological disorder that affected his upper torso and arms and conceivably could have spread to other parts of his body. That made it easy for him to feign numbness wherever and whenever he chose. But he also could use medical jargon to describe the symptoms he could fake so well. When he suffered his frequent temporary losses of speech, he compensated by writing a technical account of his medical and personal history. These invariably included the fact that all his relatives had met violent deaths...
This summer we have a young man, Ray Dooley, clad in a silver body-stocking with ligamental cords running from arms to torso. Dooley moves with admirable lightness, assisted by John Morris' delicate flutes, harp and chimes. His speech, however, is erratic; and his discourse (in a harpy's disguise) to the villainous nobles is an almost total loss. In "Come unto these yellow sands," "Full fathom five," and "Where the bee sucks" Ariel has three of Shakespeare's loveliest lyrics; but Morris' supporting vocalists cannot hide the fact that Dooley is simply no singer. The yardstick for the role...
...quick and superbly skilled attacker--repeatedly lost to fencers infinitely inferior to him. Typically, Chipman would utilize four or five feints on opponents who couldn't even see, never mind be deceived by them. They would poke their points forward in fearful reflex and touch Chipman's mask or torso...
...these photographs don't look as though they expect to stand still), you have to keep reminding yourself that you're not looking at stray limbs tooled soft as putty and clumped together like topological pretzels, but at human beings with only two arms, two legs, and one torso apiece...