Word: skeletonic
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...into a real live boy. Oversize masks hide most of the remaining actors, from the stern-faced schoolteacher with his crooked, elongated finger to a snarling, flamenco-dancing tiger tamer. Butterflies float across the stage, a miniature church breaks apart when leaves erupt from inside it, and a dancing skeleton in a bowler hat is a macabre emcee...
Fridays also always seemed to be the skeleton crew; unlike the other nights at the paper, the building was often a ghost town on Fridays...
...With a skeleton campaign crew and a promise to spend little money on his bid for Congress, Frumin was waging a low-key, coffeehouse campaign even in late summer. He emphasizes his 30 years in medicine (mostly as a psychiatrist) and is promoting a platform of universal health-care coverage. He also favors term limits, and hopes to set an example for other candidates with his largely self-funded campaign...
...from just a quick examination of the cranium and broken jawbone the coroner brought him last July. But Chatters wanted to know more. So he went to the banks of the Columbia River, where two college students had come across the skull, and managed to find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead man came from genetic stock very different from that of the Indians who have lived in that part of the country for centuries. Chatters figured he had the body of an early settler or trader...
...John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer's movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects. There are no explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave after a 30-year rest. Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), sheriff in Frontera, a Texas border town where even corruption proceeds at a somnolent pace, has reason to believe these to be the earthly remains of a sadistic and crooked predecessor, Charley Wade (Kris Kristofferson). He also guesses that his late father Buddy...