Word: skeletonic
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Trade Traders. That nugget never occurred to Robert Louis Stevenson, to whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...
...been deliberately forgotten by the Soviets, but for a while in the '20s, Soviet historians sought in Nechaev's ideas and life a native Russian source for the brilliant success of Lenin's revolutionary theories. Since Stalin's time, he has been the No. 1 skeleton in the congested Soviet closet of historical horrors. According to Michael Prawdin, a Russian emigre living in London, Sergei Nechaev is also a "key to Bolshevism...
...Skeleton's Showing. To win such willing ears, Muzak keeps things simple and undemanding, guided always by its sole esthetic law: music must be unobtrusive. Ensuring that Muzak never intrudes, Program Director Donald M. O'Neill, the top banana of the piped-in music world, frowns on jazz, vocal music of any kind, classics, instrumental solos, everything set in minor keys (too sad), and anything else that lasts more than three minutes. O'Neill, his ten musicologists and his 35 arrangers, all work for a "functional sound" that fits into their "stimulus chart." Whenever they notice something...
...Wyoming's wonders is the rare, 75-ft. brontosaurus skeleton that he recently assembled in the campus museum. Not least, Knight was the faculty wise man at Laramie for 47 years, a policy shaper under seven presidents...
...shaped like a coffin-and then, to her horror, found that she could not lift the lid. She called and called, but no one could hear her. They looked and looked, but no one could find her. Twenty years later, they found what was left of her: a skeleton in tulle...