Word: skeletonic
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...their place, dig up the remains of one fellow's late wife. She turns out to have a huge gash in her skull, implying that her husband might have murdered her. Much of this, believe it or not, is played for laughs (in one scene the pair smash a skeleton to smithereens), but McDonagh's comedy, unlike Lonergan's, never seems pasted on, or patronizing. We never lose sight of the dark drama beneath it: the harrowing picture of human beings driven half-mad by lives of crabbed, inbred isolation...
...Roman sagas, a cycle that began with the unexpected success of the campy Steve Reeves "Hercules" in 1959. But "Jason" has aged well, primarily because of its fine cast, incredible score and animated sequences that are still studied in film schools around the world. "The fight with the skeletons" is a phrase you will hear again and again when discussing the genre with experts, one of the best-ever examples of interaction between live actors and animated figures. It took four and a half months to shoot! There are seven skeletons, each separately animated, each bearing a sword, each engaged...
Public schools across the state closed their doors, area hospitals operated on a skeleton crew and Gov. A. Paul Cellucci urged all nonessential state workers to remain at home as heavy flakes blanketed the area and winds of up to 35 miles per hour buffeted trees and houses...
Using bone samples from five children, Robert Sallares, a research fellow at the University of Manchester in England, succeeded in obtaining snatches of malarial DNA from just one skeleton. The 1,500-year-old DNA matched that of P. falciparum, the most virulent form of malaria...
Burglar's skeleton is found 16 years after he vanished - lodged in a chimney...