With a deafening mechanical whine, the Instron's piston bore down on the metal leg inside the boot, mimicking the effect of a skier falling backward, the move that has ruptured thousands of knee ligaments.

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With a deafening mechanical whine, the Instron's piston bore down on the metal leg inside the boot, mimicking the effect of a skier falling backward, a move that has ruptured thousands of knee ligaments.

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In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.

WSJ: A Dizzying Artistic Feat | Edgar Degas | Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando | By Karen Wilkin