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...foil competition, only the torso is a fair target and the point is the only weapon allowed. This style is modeled on the idea that two men are trying to kill one another...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Six Harvard Squads Return to Action | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

...straight in the chair, his legs folded, his big torso looking lumbering and ungainly. The way he walks, and talks, and moves--so slowly and precisely--belies what seems to be a hidden volcano within...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...missing teeth, child-like face, wistful smile and pucker, is a slower character. He chews through a heavy accent. He thinks slowly, with his body. When he is considering something, we can see the thought travelling sluggishly up through his body, from his heavy limbs, through his fidgetting torso, up to his frowning puzzled pucker. He seems a combination between what Kael described in Brando--his emotions originating deep in his chest, then reverberating slowly to the extremities and finally to the face--and John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a dull-witted ignorant peasant baffled...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: A Wistful Smile and a Pucker | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...figures. In show after show last week, as Paris couturiers unveiled their fall designs, last year's loose look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses and near severe tailored pants and jackets. At Dior, Marc Bohan showed below-the-knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Back to the Body | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock muscularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bit of a Drag | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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