Word: skeletonic
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...specially designed "geodesic dome," an invention rated as "one of the 100 best industrial designs of the 20th century." The dome is part of the dymaxion theory created by Buckminster Fuller, who visited Leverett House a couple of months ago and lectured on his structural ideas. The aluminum skeleton of the Festival's dome is handsome enough; but since the dome is to be used in succeding years, a more aesthetically satisfactory covering ought to be procured...
...already memorized, poke away at frogs and recite by rote an endless, largely meaningless list of Latin names, learning little of the processes by which life exists on earth and which have fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd of Stanford University: "The mere skeleton of science is presented, and the facts are divorced from anything that might be called the processes of science, sterilized of their beauty and left dangling without a place in the scheme of things...
...wound inexorably together . . . until there had been wrought, out of such tenuous white and fleeting things, a taut tripwire for the souls of men, destined, before its mindless work was done, to bring many tall sure riders down to earth, and below.'' Burdened with such prose, the skeleton of a good shoot-em-up also comes rattling to earth-and below...
...crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...rapids (on an underwater track), tourists are woofed at by bears, screamed at by wildcats, bellowed at by a bull moose that was shot in British Columbia, stuffed in Denver and wired in The Bronx for a total cost of $5,000. The boat passes a ghost town where skeleton miners are strewn around on the ground, a skeleton outlaw swings from a tree, and a skeleton fisherman sits on the river bank with a fish skeleton on the end of his line...