Word: torsoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took up sculpture, the plaster dust was soon ankle-deep on his studio floor, for Giacometti smashed almost everything he did. (He explained: "They were made to last only a few hours.") Sometimes his friends rescued a head or a torso or an arm. These won praise among the forward fringe in Paris and London, but not in his native Switzerland...
First under the wire with his entry spotting Allegretti's head perched on an unfamiliar torso, Hughes held out for and won a date with the body, none other than Ray Nichols, Miss Massachusetts of 1946. "I knew those weren't Ted's hands," said the sharp-eyed winner...
...charming partners for dancing at the Copley were envisioned by Mare G. Dreyfus '47, who stated with confidence, "The left side of the face is Allegretti; the right side of McClosky." He left the torso a toss...
...cannon overboard. It landed spang in the British boat below. The boat split wide open; King George's minions gasped and gurgled. "Great God o' the Mountain," cried Holdfast, "what a glorious fight!" "Ugh!" grunted one of Holdfast's Mohegan warriors, proudly eyeing the mighty torso of his chief...
...crude wooden hut 20 miles from Paris, agents of the Paris police studied a fantastic corpse. It was the bloated body of a white man, but it had turned a ghastly, gleaming black. On each side of the torso, from rib to groin, the flesh had apparently been burned by a powerful chemical...