Word: skeletonized
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...Isabelle, Switzerland will not be be the land of freedom for her children she has envisaged. Chevalier is not remiss in reminding us that young lives can end tragically. The novel suggests that every family has a skeleton in the closet. (Or in Isabelle’s 16th century equivalent, a skeleton under the foundations of the house...
...Thursday at Boston’s Avalon proved, the two boys from Akron, Ohio deserve all the praise they’ve garnered on their own terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage of raw blues and Southern rock. Young men in t-shirts playing no-shtick rock in 2006, the Black Keys attract a wide variety of fans, from young indie-rock fans to 50-year-olds eager to see classic rockers that aren?...
...Huggable Dinosaurs? Norwegian scientists last month announced the discovery of the first complete skeleton of a pliosaur, a vicious 10-m-long sea predator with teeth as big as cucumbers [Oct. 16]. Most dinosaurs, however, weren't nearly so scary, as TIME reported in its Sept. 10, 1990, story on paleontologist Jack Horner...
...containers of liquids that you were forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...
...Perhaps there's a hidden truth that belies Warner's simple explanation, a skeleton in a closet that was about to get the kind of rummaging that only a presidential campaign can bring. But the known evidence suggests he is being honest. Those close to him say that even though his wife and daughters were willing to support a presidential run, he felt guilty about missing so much of his children's lives for the sake of pursuing political office. A fiercely ambitious man, he discovered something he didn't expect when he asked himself how badly he wanted...