Word: skeleton
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Although the ancestral search has not yet unearthed the proverbial skeleton, Varn says he did chance upon a few colorful progenitors, a group of roguish "banditti" who cavorted along the Mexican border during the Civil...
Reporters once looked forward to the day when they could poke around in the political skeleton closet of fundraising. Now that they've been given the opportunity, few have exercised it, succumbing to the old political trick of burying an investigator under a mass of data too big and diffuse to sort through. But only when the reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill...
Scapino retains only the barest skeleton from the Moliere play. A standard comedy plot (a pair of lovers, hidden identities, knowing rogues, fodish parents) is used as a jumping-off point for an evening of slapstick and mime. Scapino is a showcase rather than a play; its success depends on the comic talents of the actors in a show which has no pretensions to dramatic integrity. The script demands a veritable catalogue of comedy skills, ranging from stand-up routines to sexual sightgags to circus acrobatics...
...million years ago, and in the intervening time has become well equipped to survive. (In fact, the durable cockroach evolved into something very similar to its current unpleasant form some 320 million years ago and apparently saw little need for further improvement.) An insect has a strong exterior skeleton and seems disproportionately powerful in relation to its size (an ant can lift 50 times its own weight). Its capacity for flight (most but not all insects can fly), attained about 100 million years before the first flying reptiles or birds, enables it to escape its enemies and range...
Georg Buchner died at the age of 24 without answering this question about his character Woyzeck. The play stands as a skeleton, a series of 27 sketches which can be ordered to create either a clinical analysis or a predetermined tragic play. Although director Glen Bouchard has cut five scenes from the original manuscript and rearranged others, the Quincy House Theatricals' production of Woyzeck fails to arrive at a clear interpretation. The production opens with a socially oppressed Woyzeck, the constant object of his captain's moral lessons and his doctor's pointless experiments. But a few scenes later...