Word: skulled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That’s why I didn’t really know how I felt about the whole “skulls” trend. Ever since last fall, when high fashion debuted a renewed fascination with the gothic, skulls have been the print of choice for accessories everywhere. Sienna and Nicole both wore skull print scarves tied in variously contrived ways...
Urban Outfitters started selling skull t-shirts, and every Hot Hot Heat listening hipster seemed to have at least one skull print item, which apparently brought them back, with fond nostalgia, to their doc marten wearing, livejournal writing days of yore...
Supposedly, skulls have some sort of history as preppy iconography. Recently I was told that they are some how tangentially connected with English prep schools. But this, my friends, is America. I can deal with cheeky, sniveling hipsters wrapping their skull print scarf over a bowler hat, in an effort to disguise an extremely unflattering Edie Sedgwick-style haircut...
Wilson, a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, leaves his wife Clover (Angelina Jolie) and newborn child for Europe in 1939, only to return six years later after forever damaging their marriage. Over the next two decades, Wilson works covertly to build the infrastructure that will eventually become the operating CIA at the expense of his family, and perhaps his own humanity...
...Church has said that it may try to open the sarcophagus, but hasn't set a date, which is consistent with the preferred speed of both the Vatican and careful archaelogists. If they do, and they discover the bones of a single man whose skull appears to have been forcefully separated from his body (Paul was beheaded) then the scholars will be much more receptive. Carbon dating might at least attest to a first-century provenance...