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...well as stones. Her chief metaphor, as Brenson (who wrote the catalogs for both shows) points out, is "the enchanted forest," which "can be traced back to animistic peoples for whom trees and forests were fearfully and delightfully alive." The tree trunk refers to, and sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Visions Of Primal Myth | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Even with a healthy team, though. Harvard would have been hard pressed to make it close against Cornell. The Big Red is a head, shoulders, torso, waist and legs above the rest of the Ivy league...

Author: By Mike Maciszewski, | Title: Grapplers Go 1-3 on Weekend | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

HANDCUFFS, YES. HOT CANDLE WAX DRIPping on Willem Dafoe's naked torso -- that too. But the nipple clamps remain an unfulfilled promise. And so does BODY OF EVIDENCE, in which Madonna plays a woman on trial for murdering a lover by inducing a heart-straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 1, 1993 | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...buys his clothes from The Andover Shop. Hewears striped, button-down oxford shirts alongwith the omni-present khaki chinos. Closer tohome, he's got his wedgy-prone tighty-whitey BVDsfor that extra measure of support. Slumped overhis skinny torso is a cardigan wool sweater...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Men | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

WHAT WOULD YOU PAY FOR A dream? Radiant sunshine. A light breeze caressing your newly tanned torso. Glamour, companionship, security, all in one pretty parcel. A place that's yours, you own it, easy installments. A dream called home. What would you pay for a deluxe retirement condo? These guys can get it for you -- wholesale, practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweating Out Loud | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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