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Baghain is particularly struck by the skull of a bear perched on a stone near a wall adorned by an ursine image. "What is significant," says the official, "is that some 17,000 to 20,000 years ago, a human being decided to put it in that particular place for a particular reason. I think it fair to assume that the bear did not self-decapitate on that spot to intrigue us." Was this an altar for some Paleolithic ceremony...
...second in 10 months. Aikman now says he is symptom free and ready to play, an attitude that worries his agent, Leigh * Steinberg. "Players have a better grasp of the contents of a can of diet soda than they do of the effects of their brain rattling against their skull," Steinberg says. "They accept way too much risk...
...what parts! Walton attached rows of Victorian houses to both ends of the Paramount stage (already double the width of the standard Broadway stage) so that it seems to embrace the audience. And everywhere there is wonder to behold: Jacob Marley's huge skull glowering on the facade of Scrooge's house, sets that open and fold like mammoth pop-up Christmas cards, a spider web of gold chains on which Scrooge is crucified by remorseful ghosts, a tombstone that forces him into the rising fires of hell...
...this, for Marx believed in phrenology Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German Socialist Party, writes in his Memoirs that when he came to London in the 1860s to join Marx's faction, before he was admitted, Pfander--the official party phrenologist--danced, his fingers around his skull. This was printed in the Kerr edition of Liebknecht's memoirs, but when these were reprinted by Moscow and the International Publishing (the official Communist publishing house in the United States), those passages were omitted without any dots or ellipses to indicate that cuts...
...film is a product of attitudes towards science in its time, thus ruling out Shelley's tragic father-son relationship. The 'science' of phrenology, the study of the physical characteristics of the skull as an indicator of personality and behavior, is used as a horror technique, obscuring true possibilities of horror. The brain transplanted into Boris Karloff's monster is that of a psychopathic criminal, presumed to be preprogrammed for murder and mayhem. The revealing of this fact to 'Dr. Frankenstein extracts a reaction of dread at the inevitable terrors such a brain, reanimated, will produce. Yet Karloff...