Word: skeletonic
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...each visitor steps onto one of the four sets of marked footprints (red for fire, blue for water, yellow for air and green for earth), he triggers photoelectric cells that set in motion a rapid-fire sequence of images, lights and sounds. Nature lovers (green) find themselves contemplating a skeleton emerging from a pregnant woman, a wheat field, a graveyard. "People become part of the art object," Martin explains. "They score it. They compose it. I supply the format...
...following scene, an australopithicine discovers what we will call the tool, a bone from a skeleton which, when used as an extension of the arm, adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick...
...Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
...Spock. Aroused by acrimony and acid-rock, the crowd moved exuberantly out across the Arlington Memorial Bridge toward the Pentagon. Inside the Pentagon, a siege mood prevailed. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had entered his third-floor office at 8:15 a.m. and immersed himself in his customary workload. The skeleton staff of 3,000 that usually mans the Pentagon on Saturdays had been sharply pared by orders to all personnel to stay home unless their presence was absolutely necessary. In the four underground tunnels that normally service buses and taxis, vehicles of the First Army were parked bumper to bumper...
...hippies, comparing them to the Greek Cynics whom she described as sort of grubby in appearance and gross in manner, seekers of the simple "natural" life. She prodded them for trying to reject the past. "One can no more reject the past than reject one's own skeleton...