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...After a while, the whole point is the digging. What else is there under my skin? What will I find inside of there?…My goal becomes finding a bone, getting far enough into my leg to touch ossified ivory mass, to massage my own skeleton with my Tweezerman scalpel. I work on this task for hours. Blood spurts everywhere, the white tile on the bathroom floor is covered with stains, blood drips down my legs, there is blood on my hands, blood on the sundress I wear, and I am too busy trying to find a bone...
...empted, Fox's twisted rich-family saga is harder to find than Dick Cheney's secret secure location. But intrepid viewers are rewarded with a great cast (including Dana Delany, Martin Donovan and Philip Baker Hall) in a darkly funny story of a powerful media clan with a skeleton--perhaps literally--in its walk-in closet. Not everything in Pasadena, we learned, smells like roses...
...Third World country with strong English and typing skills, like Cambodia or India. Trading desks can be replaced by networks of day traders working from home. Ideally, once these firms have restructured, they will retain nothing but a HR department and an outgoing, charismatic, racially diverse skeleton staff to recruit us outgoing, charismatic and racially diverse students...
...animates each hand’s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines. And the hands are recognizably human: There is not any bone or blood vessel to remind us that each of us is, essentially, a Halloween skeleton...
...charred skeleton open to the sky. One side wall, chipped and broken, serves as a firing line targeting Taliban positions 600 m away. As the sun sets behind the western mountains, we watch the enemy moving behind their lines. Between us lies a wasteland of smashed masonry, burned-out vehicles and many, many unseen mines. "For now we stay in our positions and they in theirs," says Allah Mahmad...