Word: cadaveric
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The Knowledge of Death. Before Rome, Greene used to paint frozen tableaux that mirrored modern existentialist ideas. He trapped his figures-as in Sartre's No Exit-in shallow doorless and windowless spaces, amputated their legs, and left them relying on crutches. The Burial (see color) shows a legless...
Most people do not understand that composers use a variety of techniques which change in time, he said. "But if you think the same way for 30 years, you are a cadaver."
"They thought I was a political cadaver," rang out the familiar, high-pitched voice across the public square in the industrial city of Campinas. "But the people, repeating the Bible, said 'Rise and walk,' and here I am." A year after he surprisingly abdicated Brazil's presidency and took a...
New York mobsville, reported the New York Daily News last week, has solved this nagging problem of the corpus delicti. Solution: the hydraulic press, used in automobile junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken...
Mysteriously, Marshall's cadaver contained 15% carbon monoxide. Estimating that the embalming process had removed another 15%, the pathologist figured 30% at the time of death-not enough to be fatal in itself.