Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standard vehicle for these. It was the end of an older tradition, that of the allegorical table piece, the vanitas paintings that were so popular in the Netherlands in the 17th century. In them the lowly objects of still-life painting become allegories of the senses or, with a skull and some musty books, of death. Where Harnett is weakest and most derivative is, precisely, where he tried to tell his stories. He liked mild, kitschy allegorizing. His invocations of the past (the classical bronze and the broken copy of Cervantes' Don Quixote in The Old Cupboard Door...
They are taking heed of the flack which has trailed President Bush, who has been sharply criticized for joining Yale's then all-male Skull and Bones club during his undergraduate days...
...WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...movie audience jumps as the shots ring out. On the wide screen, John F. Kennedy lurches forward, his skull shattered by the bullets' impact. The crowd is horrified and the nation stunned, and the attempt to untangle the mystery behind his assassination begins. The Warren Commission determines that murderer Lee Harvey Oswald acts alone, but the movie audience leaves the theater unconvinced. The film's director seems to believe there's some kind of conspiacy afoot, and he's done a good job arguing his case...
...Muir says he has even been frightened by the contents of a bag. When he was a book checker, he says, he found a skull...