Word: skeletonic
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...April 19th, Rashid Kokas pulled back a dirty white cloth from a skeleton believed to be his brother, Bashar. "No one says, no one knows," he cried, the universal chant of mourners denied information about loved ones disappeared into Saddam's Gulag. A follower of radical Shiite cleric Mohamed Al Sadr, Bashar was arrested on July 1, 2000 and accused of seditious religious activity. Rashid says that after bribing guards he learned his 30-year-old brother had been hung. Pressing for confirmation, Rashid was told to back off or face the same...
...everyone has the same information going into a scene, because we can't contradict one another. When jazz guys are improvising, they know what key they're starting in, and the melody they improvise off of is not just arbitrary. That's exactly what this is: you have a skeleton of something you can build...
...hinge [of the book] is that this guy’s skeleton is actually still on display in a museum in London,” she says...
Heredity tells the story of Elizabeth Mann, a young woman working in London on a travel guide assignment, who discovers the skeleton of Jonathan Wild, a famous 18th century criminal, in an obscure museum. With the help of her lover, an infertility specialist, Elizabeth and the reader become engrossed in Wild’s mysterious life. Eventually, Elizabeth decides to take steps to bring the man closer to modernity that anyone ever thought possible...
...When I came to Harvard in the fall of ’99, the weight room was a skeleton of what it is today,” Hagerman said...