Word: skeletonic
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...play means to be a parable of political tyranny, the point is fully made in the first ten minutes. More probably, Playwright Athayde means to say that we are force-fed prefabricated information throughout our lives. He also goes cosmic over morality with the appearance of a skeleton .nd Miss Margarida's big bad news: "You are all going to die." Without Estelle Parsons, the play surely would have. -T.E.K...
...last few weeks Park's skeleton crew has been joined by sidelined varsity quarterback Tim Davenport. Davenport has been giving pointers to freshmen signal callers Jim Keyte, Mike Jacobs, and Haywood Miller, one of whom will start tomorrow when the yardlings open their season against Navy Prep...
...write their reports, the correspondents returned on Thursday to the officially closed, eerily deserted Time-Life Building, where a skeleton staff was working without air conditioning or normal lighting. An emergency generator installed after the '65 blackout was used to run one elevator and the telex machines. Among those on hand were Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who wrote our cover story, and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote an accompanying article on why it all happened. The senior editors for the whole project were Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who wrote our cover stories...
These alternately funny, tragic, and wistful stories flesh out the skeleton of the book, the accounts of the five seasons from 1972-1976. Local fans will undoubtedly delight in reliving the thrills and heartbreaks of the 1975 Red Sox-Reds World Series, which, perhaps more than any other factor, is responsible for the current resurgence of baseball mania. Angell captures those moments perfectly...Fred Lynn, his body limp, lying at the base of the wall in Game Six...Carlton Fisk standing at home plate forcing his home run inside the foul pole...and finally, Lynn again, in Game Seven straining...
...terms Star Wars is strictly softcore. Lucas, a fan himself, has evoked images from some of the best-known writers in the field. Tatooine, for example, is much like the arid planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's famed Dune trilogy; that resemblance carries even to the skeleton of one of Herbert's giant sand snakes in the background of a Tatooine scene. The barroom sequence, with its remarkable array of extraterrestrial freaks, is reminiscent of scenes written by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Delaney. But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction...