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Biblical precedent suggests a compromise for the Kazan award dilemma. Present the great director with an Oscar that has a head, torso and legs of gold but feet of clay. J. DANIEL JOHNSON Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1999 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...have found it tremendously beneficial to my own sculpture. I've been surprised by what I've been able to get out of it. In a couple of hours, you can get a whole torso, with muscles and a head--not just a regular snowman, but one that presents a real physique...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Snow Search | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...deliberately twisted his body from side to side, trying to keep his head from hitting the pavement. He may have been conscious at the time of his death, when his head was finally torn off by a concrete drainage culvert. Lawmen later found Byrd's head and upper torso, including his right arm, shoulder and neck, in a ditch about a mile away from the rest of his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Life For A Life | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...mind was a racial killing. As it turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery. He wanted Byrd's death to fulfill the traditional function of a lynching. "It was designed to strike terror into the community," a government witness said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Life For A Life | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...moment he is threatened, he turns into a shell-shock poster child and begins writhing all over the floor. He turns into a worm. Furthering this redoubling of the gender-turn as species-turn, Bryan Leach '00 plays an anthropomorphic (albeit morphologically impaired [a la Rilke's Archaisicher Torso Apollos]) dog, a stereotypical Scotland Yard scrub, who's neutered jokes wear thin, to say the least. Also included in this category is Donatello Mywife (ably, even riotously, acted by Michael Roiff '01) because he is: a) Italian; and b) seemingly the genetic dregs of...let's just say his mother...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hasty Pudding Rushmores Through History of America | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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