Word: torsoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald Hume first captured the attention of the crime-loving British public in 1949 when he took off in a rented airplane and dropped three packages into the Thames estuary. The packages contained, respectively, the head, legs and torso of a used-car dealer named Stanley Setty, who had quarreled with Hume. A present-day Mack the Knife, Hume was true to his Threepenny Opera code: "If you have an enemy, get rid of him." He had stabbed Setty to death and dismembered...
...point volunteers to murder. This theme of Green Eye's woman, Green Eyes as woman, runs through the play--one of the paradoxes of which Genet is fond. It is dramatized, summarized, in one moment of action, where Green Eyes "opens his shirt brutally and reveals his torso to Maurice. On it is tattooed a woman's face." In Garen's production, instead of a brutal gesture there is only a discreet peek...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (Cocinor; Trans-Lux). There is no hedging, no photographic euphemism. In the delivery room the head, the shoulders, the torso and finally the legs of an aborning infant come into view, and seconds later the mother gathers the baby in her arms. In the first completely undisguised commercial filming of a woman giving birth to a child, French Writer-Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois recorded a scene that would seem guaranteed to outrage maiden aunts, set 15-year-olds to snickering aloud, and increase the watch-and-ward membership twelvefold. Instead, the moment...
...wild applause, a shaggy, prune-faced man lunges onstage at Manhattan's Bijou Theater, his skinny torso masked by a loose red sweater, his hands feverishly clutching a rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...
Having decided that operation was unavoidable, the surgeons prepared for a long, complicated siege. Off came Margie's long, glistening black hair. Her entire torso and part of one thigh, her shaved head and her neck were encased in a monstrous plaster cast known among doctors and nurses as a "turtle." The cast was hinged in the middle. Joining the halves on the left, and spanning the spinal curvature, was a turnbuckle. Every day or two the doctors extended the turnbuckle by a couple of turns. As it was lengthened, it flattened and almost erased the curve. But unaided...