Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep, dark secrets of American political life. With an understandable reluctance to expose dirty legislative linen to the public eye, Senators and Representatives have kept closemouthed about the techniques of lobbys. The lobbyists themselves were not talking; and the art and science of influencing lawmakers was a well-closeted skeleton...
Homer Bradshaw, feeble and haggard (he had lost 40 Ibs.), helped his wife to freedom across the Lowu Bridge that separates Hong Kong from Communist China; as they walked onto British soil, Red Cross workers had to support them. Wilda Bradshaw, skeleton-thin and empty-eyed, mumbled incoherently and shrank in terror from photographers' flashbulbs...
This plot has at least the skeleton of an excellent musical comedy. Had an experienced editor taken hold of the project, the results might have been more palatable. But apparently no one did, and Mr. Blitzstein's creation remains a confusing hodge-podge of unsatisfying songs and dances. He seems almost wholly innocent of a sense of logical progression from scene to scene. One somehow has the feeling that in the last act, the scenery should disappear, and a narrator, or perhaps the author himself, should emerge to tell the audience exactly what the noise is all about...
...Reckless is by no means the first horse to be honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...
Equally taxing were the opera's numerous scenic effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...