Word: skeletonization
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...spectators to take a balloon some afternoon and go to the moon. Mitzi Mayfair displays her pretty pertness in many guady vehicles, but perhaps to best advantage in the role of a little old lavender lady, who is pleasantly ruffled by Gil Lamb, the man with the ludicrously disjointed skeleton. Bert Lahr is everything comical from the outdoor man who rhapsodizes on the uses of wood, to the juggler of jazz who squeezes all the latest kinder-gartenish pranks in noise into one amazing din. But the array is next to infinite, with Paul Haakon dancing, Gracie Barrie singing...
...torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework the whole weight of the statue hangs. Not bronze is Liberty's skin but hand-hammered sheets...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...Hilo, Hawaii, the Matson liner Matsonia left strikers on the beach, sailed with a skeleton crew...
...England power system (TIME, June 8). Last month the last of a $7,000,000 Works Progress Administration appropriation gave out, left the War Department holding a collection of trim homes, shops, warehouses built for the project's administrative workers on a sandy strand near Eastport. The skeleton staff decamped and 'Quoddy Village became a ghost town...