Word: skeletonic
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Trains still run underground into Pennsylvania Station, but the station itself has disappeared, while up above, the steel skeleton for a new $75 million Madison Square Garden (third structure to bear the name), a 29-story hotel and office building is going up. On Madison Avenue, the 94th Street Armory, once home for the socialite Squadron A, is crumbling under the siege of wreckers to make way for an integrated junior high school; while at 74th Street, Architect Marcel Breuer's new Whitney Museum, with its massive cantilevers and moat, is readying for its September debut. Across Central Park...
...strength of a giant, enabling him to lift 1,500-lb. loads with a minimum of effort. Nick named HardiMan, the machine is being developed by General Electric under a joint Army-Navy contract. Attached to the operator at his feet, forearms and waist, the steel-framed, pincer-armed skeleton mimics and amplifies its user's movements, could be used for bomb loading, underwater salvage and a variety of other functions, both military and civilian...
...hammer and sickle, the Russians displayed their usual Soviet pop, in which Lenin portraits are repeated with the regularity and exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming Widow your own Gilt Skeleton...
...exam is intended to crystallize SDS's opposition to the war and reach numbers of people. "[The Vietnam program] is meant as a skeleton to which local chapters and groups can add...[It] will get much national publicity, and will unite the protests exam centers for the maximum national impact," an instruction sheet from national SDS offices to local chapters says...
There is in fact not just one skeleton but ten, and they are relics worth exhuming. As plays, they are quite unplayable. Although two of them were produced in England some years ago, their subject matter and their dramaturgy are now badly out of style. Still, as part of a whole picture they are fascinating. They reveal Lawrence's rich gift for dialogue, and they show him working and reworking scenes and characters from his novels...