Word: skeletonized
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...possible to 'go modern' and still 'be British.'" In 1933 he helped found Unit One, a movement that aimed to revitalize British art by embracing Continental modernism. One of his most successful Surrealist works is Landscape From a Dream (1936-38), where an angry bird, framed by the skeleton of a folding screen, peers at its reflection against a Dorset coastline. But the English landscape eventually triumphed over secondhand motifs. Nash had always been something of an animist, recording in his autobiography a lifelong sense of the spirit of place. After the outbreak of World...
...future growth. The committee currently boasts more than two-dozen affiliated faculty offering 16 undergraduate dramatic arts courses. Harvard also has access to affiliated theaters like the Agassiz, the Loeb Experimental and the Mainstage, which already provide some rehearsal and technical space for student performers. These represent a loose skeleton on which a fully fleshed-out department can be created...
...April 19th, Rashid Kokas pulled back a dirty white cloth from a skeleton believed to be his brother, Bashar. "No one says, no one knows," he cried, the universal chant of mourners denied information about loved ones disappeared into Saddam's Gulag. A follower of radical Shiite cleric Mohamed Al Sadr, Bashar was arrested on July 1, 2000 and accused of seditious religious activity. Rashid says that after bribing guards he learned his 30-year-old brother had been hung. Pressing for confirmation, Rashid was told to back off or face the same...
...everyone has the same information going into a scene, because we can't contradict one another. When jazz guys are improvising, they know what key they're starting in, and the melody they improvise off of is not just arbitrary. That's exactly what this is: you have a skeleton of something you can build...
...hinge [of the book] is that this guy’s skeleton is actually still on display in a museum in London,” she says...