Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appeared at the hearing many artistic friends of the sculptor, equally convinced of his rationality and "artistic magnificence." Among these was Arthur Lee, Norwegian-born sculptor who recently contended in Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's competition for the Pioneer Woman and whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim...
...barely kept his feet as Brooklyn's Tony Canzoneri, tough challenger, rushed and slashed, came close to rocking Rockford's sheik to sleep. Then class told and Tony Canzoneri found himself taking many a left jab, many a deft hook, on the chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside judges. So, after ten hard rounds, by vote of 2 to 1, Sammy Mandell kept his seldom-risked crown, was very glad the struggle...
...buzzard flapped over her?omen of evil?and when she reached a clearing she could see a cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself."?"Why dat is?"?" 'Cause nigger ain't worry heself dat much...
Said Galleryman George H. Ainslie: "Some will condemn it on the ground that it is undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...