Word: dissecter
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...that took place in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire. "The first subject that [Stubbs] prepared was a horse which was bled to death by the jugular vein. A Bar of Iron was then suspended from the ceiling . . . and the animal was suspended to the iron bar. [Stubbs] first began by dissecting the muscles of the abdomen proceeding thro five different layers ... Then he proceeded to dissect the head ... he made careful designs and wrote the explanation which usually employed him a whole day. He then took off another layer of muscles . . . and so proceeded until he came to the skeleton...
They are basketball's greatest team, a band of talented opportunists who can do everything-shoot with bull's-eye marksmanship, dissect a defense with pinpoint passes, and, for good measure, spice the exhibition with the tang of showmanship...
...game of sprinting, sharpshooting giants, Guy Rodgers, 24, is the league's smallest fulltime starter, relies on oldfashioned, sleight-of-hand playmaking. At his slick best. Rodgers is a marvel of balance and bounce who can dribble behind his back at full tilt, delicately dissect opponents' defenses with pinpoint passes. Weighing a compact 188 Ibs., Rodgers is so superbly coordinated that he often does not bother to catch a pass, instead taps the ball to the floor to start his dribble. In just his second year as a pro, Rodgers is second in assists-per-game only...
Burns seizes every chance to pick a brain or dissect an idea, even when he is with his wife or son or daughter. He scribbles his ideas on memo sheets or matchbooks, empties them out of his pockets in the morning, when his secretary fires them off to RCA executives. On the way from his twelve-room stone house in Greenwich. Conn, to his antique-studded office on the 53rd floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, he usually takes along an RCA executive for a back-seat conference in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac. Visiting the U.S. exhibit in Moscow...
...with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations, the troupe is invited to perform for Sweden's king...