Word: headlessness
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...metaphors are endless: the headless horseman, the rudderless ship, the car without a driver. Whatever your fancy, each and every one applies to this faculty during this "interim" year. While Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature, proclaimed on this page last June, "As a faculty, we are committed to finding a new way. We continue to move forward energetically," the lackluster progress made over the last semester has proven otherwise...
Once called, a stage manager leads actors upstairs, walking backward, tour guide-style, and punctuating her spiel by deep gasps for breath. There is a quick sizing up as a director distributes parts, then the groups of two or three head down the hallways, past headless tailor dummies and tables covered with pairs of black shoes from former shows...
...music videos on iTunes at press date of Wednesday, Oct. 26. —Ben B. Chung1. Weapon of ChoiceFatboy SlimWe all have our favorite Christopher Walken characters. This Academy Award-winning actor has played a number of hard-boiled criminals, he’s scared audiences as a headless horseman, infamously asked for “more cowbell,” and made Owen Wilson squirm in this summer’s comedy hit “Wedding Crashers.”It’s often forgotten, however, that he began his career on Broadway as a song...
...setting-up-the-democracy part he doesn't get. "I do feel like we were lied to about our reasons for being here," he writes in his meditative, almost daily blog about life in Saddam's hometown, posting pictures of what he sees on his base: a headless palm tree that had been hit by a mortar, for example, or a gold carp caught in the Tigris. "Here," he writes, "they teach you to trust no one because anyone might be your enemy...
...Last year's excavation yielded 13 skeletons, all of them headless. This find, the first of many mysteries, was followed by the discovery of three skulls resting on the chest of the skeleton of an elderly man. None of the skulls was his, and one contained a jawbone from another skull, which hasn't been found. In the past few weeks, another 10 individuals have been found, interred in a range of unusual positions - some lying on their side, others with their legs apart or face down, a fate sometimes associated in ancient burials with those guilty of awful crimes...