Word: skeletonic
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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...
...could be blamed for doubting. He had not been seen in public since 1958, and the most recent photo dates from 1952. Dr. Jack Titus, the chief pathologist at Methodist Hospital, performed the autopsy. He found Hughes to be a skeleton of a man, weighing only 90-odd lbs., with wispy gray hair down to his shoulders and a sparse beard...
With just a skeleton crew of caretakers on hand, most of whom were unfamiliar with the shutdown plans, it's understandable that the temperatures could plummet to zero without anyone bothering to turn the heat back...
...problem of morale, principally of the overworked skeleton crew that had to clean up all the damages before sutdents returned and of those students who came back to study and found massive re-decorating to be their first chore, can't be assessed...
...priced favorite is the 3-ft.-tall skeleton of a person unknown from the church in Hildersham, Cambridgeshire; another is Lady Margaret Peyton, wearing a richly detailed gown of Italian brocade and an elaborate butterfly coiffure, who lies with her husband Thomas and his first wife, also named Margaret, in Cambridgeshire...