Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the crater were bronze basins and four chariot wheels with bronze-covered hubs and iron rims. Of the chariot itself little remained, but among the bronze ornaments from its vanished sides lay the delicate skeleton of a young woman. She must have been (or been loved by) a person of high position, for on her head was a golden diadem weighing more than a pound, with beautifully modeled winged horses and lions' paws. Professor Joffroy does not think the crown was of local manufacture, but he has no idea where it was made...
...Spanish Skeleton. If everything had gone according to plan, the University of Miami might have been born big and grandiose. Its founders, a group of Coral Gables plungers, wanted it to look like a bit of old Seville-"a triumph of Spanish architecture." Instead, with its founders financially crippled by crash and hurricane, the university opened with a $500,000 debt. Its great administration building remained only a skeleton; its one usable building was an abandoned, half-finished hotel, which was fixed up with beaverboard partitions to accommodate classes. President Ashe himself had to borrow on his own insurance policies...
Although the strike has practically eliminated Yale's sanitary, electrical, and custodial services, the union has kept a skeleton crew at the university medical centers...
...becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts of objects pop out at the audience from the screen: fists, a skeleton's hand, cancan dancers' legs, guns, pickaxes, spears, falling bodies. As Waxworks Proprietor Price says at one point: "I'm going to give the people what they want-sensation, horror, shock." If, as Hollywood fondly hopes, this is what moviegoers want, House of Wax is a howling...
...identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom Man, who has been known thus far only by his typical fluted spearheads...