Word: torning
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...been able to rally, at least for the moment, the deeply divided Vietnamese army. This week he was in charge, along with a military junta of fellow officers-in charge of the army, of the war, and to a large extent of the heavy U.S. stake in his torn country...
Still, the torn edges of the flesh, and the jagged ends of blood vessels, nerves and tendons had to be trimmed back. To give themselves room, the Chinese surgeons did something that their American colleagues consider very clever. They cut back the bones on each side of the break for almost a quarter-inch, thus preparing clean, smooth surfaces for joining...
Breathing Brushstroke. Bissier's art is in a sense torn literally off the fabric of the world. Working from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in his studio on the Swiss end of Lake Maggiore, he prepares thready-edged linen canvas or irregular pieces of batiste shirting. Over these loose, unframed scraps, he lays on slick sizing so that subsequent brushstrokes in oil tempera seem to float above the surface. He paints where the bristles of his soft, often home-made brushes lead him. He says he is "listening to the brush-I want my colors to breathe...
...matter. Nor did it matter, for the moment at least, that only 300 miles away Moroccans were fighting shoot-to-kill border clashes with Algerian troops (see THE WORLD). Like much of Jacqueline Kennedy's four-day visit to Morocco, it all seemed like a page torn from the Thousand and One Nights...
Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...