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Looping and chopping its way through the repertory of shorthand for the human face and figure that he himself had developed decades before, Picasso's brush encountered no resistances. The twisting and displacement of a torso or an ear, the mock-cubist overlapping and profiling related to nothing except earlier paintings that he had made but seemed to have half forgot ten. The drama of assimilation, of that prehensile eye clawing at the world's very guts, dissolved. He ran out of subjects and fell back as never before on stock dummies - troglodytic clowns and kidney-profiled women...
...realizes she must help. The force of nature alone is not sufficient, even for her own freedom. Lifting her dress and tying it about her waist, she begins to run; moving as quickly as she can. With this effort, the muscles in her legs and torso begin to flame. This is work, labor at its most pure; this toiling to rid oneself of chains imposed by some other. Pleasure sharp and murderous, rages through her suddenly. Her motion inside the rain is a war; her battling unnoticed. Even though catcalls seem to be flying from all directions. Tiny boys whistle...
...intense sexual encounters in the film were not all simulated. Replies Schneider: "We were never screwing on stage. I never felt any sexual attraction for him, though my friends all told me I should. But he's almost 50, you know, and"-she runs her hand down her torso to her midriff-"he's only beautiful to here...
...sculptor emerges as a stereotype of the rollicking boho, leapfrogging over beds and smashing dealers' windows, spouting off against Establishment art values from the top of an Easter Island head in the Louvre, and performing unlikely - and, in real life, unrecorded - feats of gymnastics like carving a marble torso several feet high in six hours flat to im press a dealer. Sophie Brzeska is played by Dorothy Tutin - an elegantly controlled and touching exercise in tight, fey dottiness...
...full of contempt for the "morons and madmen," anyone who would laugh, gape or exploit him. Nevertheless he feels the urge to lead this uneducated herd to drink from the reservoir of great art. In concluding what is surely the most stylish lecture of his career, he quotes "Archaic Torso of Apollo," by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke...