Word: skulled
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...Skull and Bones this was not. A veritable United Nations of punches, including representatives from every major race, descended upon CoSo to nosh and network with Spee members, fellow punches and their dates (who put the lie to claims of gender inequity...
...ghosts in Electric Shadows, from first-time female director Xiao Jiang, are old movie stars who entrance a new generation. Our young hero, Mao Dabing, meets his beloved, Ling Ling, in a novel fashion: she whacks him on the skull with a brick. When he recovers enough to scold her, she refuses to speak, simply handing him the key to her flat. In it he finds a private screening room, with posters and reels of ancient movies starring the doomed Shanghainese diva Zhou Xuan...
...public in mid June. Curator Charlotte Day envisages "a contemplative, slower experience that takes time to look at and engage with," and Swallow is already hard at work on two new pieces - including a Medusa-inspired bike helmet filled with writhing snakes - to join his L.A.-completed cactus and skull-in-a-beanbag works. But the centerpiece will be Killing Time, 2003-2004, a still-life table overflowing with the sea creatures of Swallow's Australian childhood in the Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood...
...families: Bush is a 13th cousin, once removed, of the Queen of England; Kerry descends from John Winthrop, the founder of Massachusetts. Both attended elite Eastern boarding schools like their fathers, moved on to Yale two years apart and as juniors were tapped for its most exclusive secret society, Skull and Bones...
Though they graduated only two years apart--Kerry in 1966, Bush in '68--in between their world turned on its axis. Bush called his the "last short-haired class," but they were rebels compared with Kerry's. Of the 15 Skull and Bones members in the graduating class that included Kerry, four enlisted after graduation; two years later, none did. Speaking of John's decision to join the Navy, Richard Kerry told the Boston Globe in 1996, "I thought [the war] a serious policy mistake. His attitude was gung-ho: he had to show the flag. He was quite immature...