Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards your review of Belle of the Nineties (TIME, Sept. 24, Cinema), you fail to mention body-padding on the parts of anyone else in the cast other than Miss West. How about Miss Katherine DeMille, whose upper torso throughout the entire film is something incredible, certainly too good to be true? Are these portions of the young woman's figure actually as wonderful as depicted or are they, for the most part, just a physiological hoax? Even a hoax of such proportions ought to be TIME-worthy...
...Knoxville Journal's front page of the same day was splashed a six- column close-up picture of the bare, bloody torso of a dead gunman, punctured by 23 police bullets. Such journalistic antics were unknown on the sedate Journal while Luke Lea owned it. But with onetime Publisher Lea in a North Carolina prison, the newspaper's control has been vested in the remote, impersonal hands of New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. and the present titular owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Tennessee's late Governor. Meanwhile the editorial staff has delighted in doing as it pleases. City...
...dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen and cut-out a more penetrating photographic exposure was given to the thick part of her body than to its less dense extremities...
Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition?a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
...into colossal terms. In halting, gesticulating English he explains that he tries to make the human figure "symbolic of growth everywhere in the world, to relate it to the immensity of the cosmos. Therefore my statue grows, it has to be big. I cannot help it." He thinks the torso the most expressive and important part of the human body, often exaggerates it at the expense of a statue's head. One of his biggest carvings is a stylized group of women and children symbolizing Civilization on the west façade of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...