Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carnival barker shouts, striking a frightening pose and pausing dramatically, his crazed face illuminated by the kerosene lamp, "is full of surprises...behold the Terriblele Elephant Man." The curtain is swept away. In the mist and shadows, only the silhouette of the sideshow freak is visible--the twisted, lumpy torso and the horrid, enormous head. The place is London, the year is 1883, and John Merrick, a victim of fate and society, meets Dr. Frederick Treves, the man who will change his life...
...Woman in the Sun, 1961, standing like a middle-aged caryatid on a plinth of golden light in the bare Hopperian room, wearing nothing but a cigarette. In it, the distances between wall and wall, window and sky, or the lit edge of the curtain and the worn radiant torso, take on something of the strangeness of the space in a good De Chirico. The body is enfolded by its own distances from the world, while planted solidly in a real bedroom. By the same token, the realism of the scene is also an appeal-though a subliminal...
...Arias again last week, losing to Jaime Fillol in the first round of the Washington Star International Championship in Washington D.C. The 15-year-old is a lot taller now, but his arms are still thin, his torso unmuscled. Arias lost the tight three-setter to the crafty Chilean because he was unable to maintain the brilliant level of play that repeatedly brought the crowd to its feet and a puzzled frown to Fillol's face...
...first of the environments, called The Royal Voyage, consists of early pieces from the '50s that are too distinct and fragmentary to work together, but it prepares one for the Nevelsonian themes -those dark spikes and points, the torso-like fragments of turned baluster that are her equivalent of the cubist guitar, the plaques and table forms, the totems...
Initially paralyzed by the accident from the neck down, the senior eventually regained feeling in his upper torso after an extended hospital stay but remains paralyzed below the waist and confined to a wheelchair...