Word: skeletons
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...could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
Like most Civil War novels, it rustles with crinolines and chivalry, tells its story through the decline of an aristocratic family. But Author Williams' Currains are haunted by a unique skeleton in the plantation closet: it seems that Papa Currain, long since dead, "like a young torn turkey on the prowl, lightly dandling a hedge wench named Lucy Hanks in some hidden thicket ... had fathered Abraham Lincoln's mother...
...Look of Satisfaction. "Although railway administrations of both Dominions have doggedly tried to keep a skeleton schedule going, they have now given up. For days on end no trains arrived in Delhi without having been attacked and looted practically all along the route...
...traditional European symbol of death is the skeleton with a scythe, toothy, faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
...defend his dilapidated capital, Taiyuan. But he could not move against the Communists who now held almost three-fifths of the province. A lot of Communists had filtered into rich south Shansi when the Government withdrew troops for the attack on Yenan. "We traded a fat cow for a skeleton," say bitter men in Taiyuan. Shansi people used to admire...