Word: skeletonic
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...easy to throw stones at the glass houses of Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. To traditionalists, who want their living and working places to combine comfort and beauty, Mies's stark, steel-ribbed structures seem as sterile-and ominous-as a steer's skeleton burned white in the desert sun. But Mies* is one of the most important architects of his time. Together with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he has had a profound influence on cityscapes of the 20th century...
...play is like the short story. Each form, because it is brief, can convey tremendous intensity, yet this same brevity only allows an author to hint at a theme. Seldom has he time to develop an idea into more than a mere skeleton. For this reason, both forms often lead to triteness or to a vagueness that goes nowhere...
...them the jitters. Alex Strugis admitted that he "can't help feeling creepy walking past the mummies on lonely mornings." As another man was closing an especially noisy window one night he felt something cold tapping him on the shoulder. Turning around he almost tripped over a loosely-wired skeleton which was shining in the moonlight and shaking in the draught. But what used to frighten the museum caretakers the most was a ferocious-looking Arab who habitually did research in the museum at 5:00 a.m. No man would not quake upon seeing the blue-suited white-turban-clad...
...Sands is studded with set pieces that will tickle all but misanthropes: Captain Cobb's annual auction of stolen articles, his drunken acceptance of the prize for the season's largest striped bass (illegitimately come by), his bogus historical lecture inspired by the finding of a complete skeleton. But Author Taylor's affection for Cape Cod and its people sometimes transcends comic writing, and his description of an offshore rescue by the local Coast Guard men during a hurricane is a model of exact reporting. The Bright Sands takes few fictional liberties with its natural setting. Those...
Island immigration authorities estimated that a small skeleton crew should be free to resume duties in Cambridge somewhere around the first of the year...