Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite these problems, Manning did demonstrate confidence and control over the choreography, and as a result could concentrate on mastering her technique. The effects of these efforts were clear as she moved her torso in and out of body waves with ease, balanced in arabesque without flinching, and seemed to lengthen her arms every time she lifted them. In addition, Manning used the famous white skirt with ruffled edges to her advantage--charging her figure with momentum as she maneuvered rapid figure-eight turns in the last few minutes...
...henchman Thomas Belotti, 45, pulled to the curb in a black Lincoln limousine, evidently on their way to a steak house. Three men waiting nearby pulled semiautomatic weapons from under their trench coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull. It took all of 30 seconds...
...consider Bach only as a kind of musical chaplain takes no account of the music that has been lost: at least 100 cantatas, many of them secular, as well as a considerable quantity of instrumental music. Like the Venus de Milo, Bach's legacy is a torso that has been taken to stand for the entire work...
Except for the gauze-covered wound stretching almost the length of her torso, the tiny, dark-haired baby girl might have been just any infant. Lying in her crib with a pacifier close at hand, she gave a couple of gaping yawns. She delicately stretched her scrawny arms in weariness. And mostly she slept. But last week, as television viewers got their first glimpse of the newborn known only as Baby Fae, it was her visibly heaving chest that stole the show. There was no mistaking the pulsations of life and no forgetting that the power source was the freshly...
...real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...