Word: torsoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plasterer had found it and handed Carmi an advance with orders to fix the instrument. Later, the plasterer changed his mind and demanded his money back. He demanded it vehemently. He pounded his fist on the piano. As he did so, the plaster casing cracked and the head and torso of a little wooden cherub came into view...
...shrewd blonde carries most of the acting load. But Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...
...sixteen works of sculpture shown at the Paul Schuster Gallery, Miguel Gusils tries his hand at a variety of materials: bronze, steel, iron, marble and terra cotta; as well as a number of styles. No. 1 "Torso" is a realistic treatment of the traditional nude. Instead of idealizing the body Gusils prefers to make it very fleshy and animal like. Irregular proportions and a relaxed posture help accomplish this. The same subject is teated in increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary...
...anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which scores points only when its point touches the torso) rips through a protecting canvas jacket and draws a few drops of blood...
Just what Piero's original masterpiece looked like will never be fully known, for only the head, shoulders and torso of his haloed young man remain. The rest of the figure was apparently destroyed generations ago, when the church wall was cut away for a doorway and a new partition added...