Word: torsos
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...canvas retains brush strokes, paint drips and slips of the palette knife as a residue of the artist’s process. In an untitled 1993 composition of brilliant red, black and creamy white rectangles, Ellis leaves his mark behind on the canvas where forms—Eyes? A torso?—seem to emerge from the troweled-on rectangles...
...occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso, an infirmity that's impossible to hide and makes the sufferer highly vulnerable to injury from a fall--or a push. "It was like having a bowling ball on top of a pool cue," says King...
...military formations, chanting and hand clapping. It's an especially good workout for hamstrings and calves. Zumba, popular in South Florida, combines low-impact cardio moves with Latin dances such as salsa, cumbia and samba. The cooldown features tango steps. Zumba gets the heart rate up while tightening the torso and leg muscles. Thanks partly to Shakira, belly dancing is hot again. Classes abound in most major cities, including St. Louis, Mo., and Washington. It strengthens abs, increases flexibility in the lower back and hip joints and is a novel way to show off at parties. For more intensity...
...with apparent riddles about the ménage à trois in which Ernst and Eluard were engaged with Eluard's beautiful wife Gala. One panel depicts a hand clutching a ball and extending through a window, its fingers twisted into what could be a woman's - Gala's? - torso. The other depicts a row of almost military-looking plants that might represent Ernst and Eluard. "Surrealism never gives you the answer," observes Spies, a former director of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. "The great Surrealist paintings are disturbing forever...
...Thug chic has come to movies in the extravagantly buff and tattooed torso of Vin Diesel. Looking like the spawn of Otto Preminger and Mike Myers' Dr. Evil, Diesel went from 0 to 60 in last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports...