Word: husk
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...grandparents. Done in bright pinks and magentas, the images more closely resemble photographic afterimages, as fleeting and spectral as memory itself. In yet another work, she merges silk-screens of her grandmother's face with those of various fossils, the two sometimes colliding in humorously grotesque ways-a scorpion husk masquerades as a facial lesion, a trilobite as eyeglasses...
Besides the newsworthy revelation of Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov's dying message to his wife recovered last week from the husk of the sunken submarine Kursk--that 23 of the 118 crewmen had survived in an isolated chamber for a while, in contradiction to claims by Russian officials that all had perished within minutes of the accident--there was the matter of writing the message in the first place...
...there is a silver lining, if you're a Democrat, in taking this gunpoint march down nostalgia lane. It means you get to wheel out the Kennedys: two of 'em, namely Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and the batting-stuffed husk of Uncle Teddy. That means a predictable fit of Kennedymania among the press, high- and middlebrow alike, and with it, the hope that tomorrow's wrap-ups will focus on what a survivor Caroline is rather than, say, Jackson's whipping the crowd into a frenzy by decrying the death penalty. (Or Tom Daschle's telling Tom Brokaw, on MSNBC, that...
...tailer. "The online market in Europe, in terms of the number of computers and ISPs and people's general comfort level with the Web, may not be mature enough yet," he says. But e-liquidator KPMG says it's already gotten 30 offers for disposing of boo.com's lifeless husk and will probably make a sale by next week. If the new owners watch their money a little more closely and get the trains running on time, boo.com may yet come back to haunt...
...team in 1989, stringing together family contacts and his own relationships. Delegating much of the nuts-and-bolts work, Bush became the struggling Rangers' public face, touring Rotary clubs and talking up the team. He avoided the skybox and sat with the fans--chewing sunflower seeds, husk and all. It was the best place to catch the action and evangelize. He'd chat with the players (in English and Spanish), signing bubble-gum cards with his picture on them...