Word: cranium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, in discussing the autopsy with Technician O'Connor, Lifton was told that on arrival at the morgue, Kennedy's brain was not in the skull. "The cranium was empty," O'Connor said. But the brain was not removed in Dallas. Lifton found other witnesses who saw a small object wrapped in a sheet being moved through the hospital halls on a cart. When asked what it was, the cart handler said it was a stillborn baby. Lifton found that Bethesda records showed no stillbirths that...
...merely failed to age during that time, he has gotten younger-looking. Through intricate scientific analysis--using a pair of precision calipers--Gould determined that Mickey's eyes, head and forehead all became larger as he aged, making him appear younger because large eyes and a bulging cranium are features common in infants. Gould extrapolates from the Mickey Mouse illustration to observe that human beings maintain much of their childlike appearance throughout later life, unlike most other mammals, making us, like Mickey, unique in that respect...
...Furter, but the image of Tim Curry's entrancingly seductive performance remains etched in memory as the real thing; Pendleton Brown plays a fine Riff Raff, Furter's alien sidekick--although his dark hair seems somehow un-Riff Raffish to those accustomed to O'Brien's bald-eagle blond cranium. Rocky fans, who recognize the slightest deviation from the standard film version, will perhaps cringe at each "revisionist" inflection or gesture; but, unless in a savage mood to begin with--distinctly possible given the overpriced tickets ($12.50, $15.00)--they should enjoy this competently acted and produced play, partly because...
...near Piltdown, England, an amateur fossil hunter named Charles Dawson "found" the first of two skulls with a human-like cranium and an apelike jaw. The find was hailed as the missing link between man and ape; for years Piltdown man occupied a prominent place in paleontology. Finally in 1953 he was unmasked: the remains were nothing more than a fabrication of modern human and ape bones doctored to give them the look of antiquity...
...aghast, among sight soon to be outdone." Shedding light on the bizarre truth of our inner, irrational metaphors, she presents this vision of a city unnaturally demolished to expose the contours of the earth, leaving only "a single monument, defabricated girders of an abolished dome, presiding like a vacant cranium or a hollowing out of the great globe itself: Saint Peter's in some eternal city of nightmare...