Word: torsoed
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...equally confrontational. Mixing photographs with short blocks of text and recorded bits of conversation, she focuses on the ways in which black women are treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines audiotapes, relics and photographs to evoke the slave trade in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1990 Simpson...
...given probation, the state's stiffest penalty for a child his age. But he first appeared in the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services' (DCFS) records in 1985 at the age of 22 months, for treatment of scratches on his neck and bruises on his arms and torso. On the afternoon of Jan. 19, 1986, police found him home alone with two brothers, then ages five and three. All had been abused. Just shy of his third birthday, Sandifer had scars on his face, numerous old, cordlike marks on his abdomen and burns on his neck and buttocks...
...worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
...Stella, the savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from Jeffries' mouth, "You've got a hormone deficiency...Those bathing beauties you've been watching ["Miss Torso," the ballet dancer across the courtyard who flits around in her brassiere and panties] haven't raised your temperature in a month," When Jeffries continues to debate with her about marrying Lisa, Stella responds, "Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence...
...cover, the sight is shocking: Rafael has no arms or legs. "I got very upset and started to cry when I first saw him," says Das Dores, 23, a part-time cleaning woman who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "When I saw him with only a head and a torso, I was devastated. I wanted to kill myself." She could not help feeling guilty: unaware that she might hurt her baby, she had taken the powerful sedative thalidomide during her pregnancy...