Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government promptly denounced the strike as a political act, and the union claimed that police in Crackow and Chelm detained 15 Solidarity members for putting up strike posters. Nowhere, however, were the printers prevented from striking. The government ran off skeleton newspapers on army presses and managed to put out a sizable run of the armed forces daily, Zolnierz Wolnosci. The Communist Party paper, Trybuna Ludu, printed only 150,000 copies of its normal 1.1 million circulation. Most news vendors obeyed a Solidarity call not to sell papers...
...orchestrated splendors include plenty to justify the quote from the late anthropologist Loren Eisely that is lettered on a plaque at the start of the exhibits: "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Suspended majestically over the central space is a 63-ft. skeleton of a finback whale donated by the New York State Museum in Albany, where it had been on display from the 1890s to 1978. The dolphin pool, or "tray," is visible from almost every vantage point in the building, its rippling surface broken by the frothy play of four bottle-nosed...
...uncovered in Colorado in the 1930s. Says Webb: "The bones add a great deal to our knowledge of this animal, which was heavy-footed and not unlike a moose." The diggers also found so many bones of the original rhino that they were able to assemble a virtually complete skeleton. It now proudly stands guard inside the entrance of the museum on the University of Florida campus...
...displayed an impish, impudent sense of humor that recalls Hitchcock's macabre comedy The Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power of obsessive love. In plot skeleton and flesh tones, De Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political and cinematic fact and fancy, is one more story of an obsessive idealist lost...
When Porath telephoned in the government's statement to a holiday skeleton staff at Israel Radio, journalists refused for an hour to believe that the startling report was genuine. Only when Radio Staffer Emmanuel Halperin, Begin's nephew, confirmed the facts with the Prime Minister himself, did the station put the reports...