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...together with the unrelated body parts of three or four other breeds--the parts, as it happens, that each breed most longed to get rid of when it looked in the mirror every morning. ("If I could just get some other dog to take this little sausage of a torso, I could go places on these legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL THE LOVELY PIGEONS | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

Epee fencing is based on the dueling weapon, and the target is anywhere on the body. Ancient tradition dictated that the fight would end upon first blood. Foil fencing has a more limited target since it is based on a training weapon, and the target zone is the torso. A derivative of the cavalry sword, saber fencing is a cutting and thrusting weapon, and the target is anywhere above the waist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's, Women's Fencers Place High at Regional Qualifiers | 3/12/1996 | See Source »

...most controversial photo in the article is "Man in a Polyester Suit," which shows the arms, torso and legs of a black man dressed in a suit. The open fly reveals a large penis which is the central focus of the photo...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Omission Of Photos Raises Questions | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...ability to reflect pools of light. Experimenting with this quirky, technicolor glare, Davis created films which shift from the geometry of work like Fischinger's towards a more mysterious use of light. His 1961 "Death and Transfiguration" uses light to create twisting forms which play over the similarly twisting torso of a man It's a strange, shifting film, unlike much else in the retrospective...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: From Bauhaus to MTV: Forging the History of Abstract Film | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...with no arm came into my shop, the blood gushing from his stump. Then he ran away. I saw the torso of a woman. She was still moving, but her legs were gone. The other day I saw something similar in a film. A beast cut a young man in two, torso and legs. One was a movie, the other is our reality here in Bosnia. We are like a flock of little chickens squeezed into this cage of a town, chirping for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO AND THE BALKANS: LOUDER THAN WORDS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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