Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boyk gave his program virtues student recitals usually lack: clarity in widely divergent styles, and assured control. He played the opening Fantasy in C minor by Bach at just the right speed. In a piece easy to muddle, Boyk avoided the temptations of slopping meat where only a staunch skeleton was appropriate...
...what happens, either before surgery or because of surgery, when the balance is upset. This results from what Dr. Moore called "erosion of the cell mass," which he translated as shrinking of the body's "engine," its mass of energy-coversion cells, in proportion to the "chassis," the skeleton and other less active tissues...
...work ever since. At one time she built up her paintings almost entirely of small squares. Later the squares opened into lines that could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements. Vieira da Silva begins a work with no image in mind: the painting starts out as a "skeleton"-a few lines or points or cells-and then leads the artist on. "I always have a line to add or a void to fill," she says...
Occasionally, Mauldin's wallops land a little below the belt - as in his figure of Charles de Gaulle sitting by the bed of a skeleton labeled "Colonialism" and observing cheerfully: "While there's life there's hope." A liberal by instinct, Mauldin refused to be hog-tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked...
...ancient, canopied bed lies corpselike old Lady MacAskival. Birds screech outside the window, ghosts roam the castle's corridors, haunted eyes gleam in the dark. In a pit beneath the trap door in the cellar lies a mysteriously deformed skeleton. "This Gothick tale," says Author Russell Kirk, is "in unblushing line of direct descent from The Castle of Otranto." He is wrong. Historian Kirk (The Conservative Mind) has expertly stuffed his book with all the claptrappings of the Gothic romance, but what he has actually achieved is a political morality tale. For all the apparent ectoplasm floating about...