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Byrd's body was found on the morning of June 7, torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African...
...that I am concerned about dry facial skin. He seems unfazed. "Young people are greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says, and explains that as collagen, the matrix of supportive tissue under our surfaces becomes brittle, skin wrinkles and veins shoot off in odd directions. While flaking skin, itching, red spots and sun spots--sometimes called liver spots--are an inevitable part...
...song, "Gotta Serve Somebody." Dylan never received a Grammy in the 1960s -- the peak of his creative influence. This year's album is considered his most acclaimed work in years. He even remained unflappable while performing "Love Sick" when a man with the words "Soy Bomb" painted on his torso leapt on stage to dance to the song. Dylan merely raised his eyebrows in a quizzical manner and kept right on singing...
...manipulated, an attitude which could lead to pornography and abuse. To clarify her point, Adatto screened a series of current art and advertising photographs of children. In one image, the head of a girl is cropped from the photo; in another, a child is posed like a model, torso thrust at the camera...
...example, one will end up with an answer of only 12 while standing before an extremely confident study of a male torso begun in (gasp) 1893. Fourteen, before the beautifully solemn portrait, "Girl with Bare Feet." And only 15 before the exhibition's first self-portrait, painted with expressive strokes in a restrained palette...