Word: skeletonic
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...played out onscreen as a sort of parenthesis to the main action. Dads, really a prosaic accountant, is shown as an embezzler who, "desperate for just a little snooky-ookums," squanders his company's loot on his secretary. Auntie is a dipso who makes love to a skeleton. The family doctor is a leering, lolloping office Lothario. Mums is carrying on with her driving instructor, and the authoress herself is driven to wicked ways in the big city...
Before closing the site in early September, the researchers had extracted the near-perfect skeleton of the mammoth, and bones of an elk, a deer, a wolf, and a huge pre-historic bison from the muck. Of even more significance than the spectacular mammoth bones, parts of stone knives were found which give indications that the mammoth was killed by manlike beings more than 12,000 years ago. The artifacts are among the earliest remains of man found in the Rocky Mountain region...
...design for a child's toy. It consisted of six columns, three horizontal concrete slabs, a cantilevered staircase-and that was all. But the simple plan for the Domino house contained a principle that was to be basic to all of his planning thereafter. The six-column skeleton relieved the facades and the interior walls of support functions: they could thus be moved and molded at will, giving the architect all the prerogatives of the sculptor. The Domino houses were never built, but they "enabled us to say: 'There are no walls in the house. What shall...
...Agent in Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed...
...will filed for probate at his adopted home of White Plains, N.Y., the late Australian-born Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger made a bizarre request: "that my flesh be removed from my bones and the flesh destroyed," with the skeleton to go to the University of Melbourne "for preservation and possible display in the Grainger Museum." But the remains of the eccentric creator of Country Gardens, interred in the family plot in Adelaide after his death last February, may never get to Melbourne. Explained his U.S. attorney: "By law a person cannot bequeath his body. The remains belong to the next...