Word: skulled
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...year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains his crossover appeal with a mischievous analogy: "The original Kabuki actors had a real punk attitude. It was the rock music of the Edo period...
Today there are a variety of intergenerational programs. Some of the newer Elderhostel programs offer a chance for adventure as well as bonding time. Wearing their skull-and-crossbones T shirts as they sailed, Al Hermann, 78, and his grandson Cameron Portratz, 13, spent a week in June aboard the schooner Zodiac. The hearty crew of 11 grandparents and 11 kids learned about the inner workings of the boat while sailing in the azure waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington. "Cameron and I polished brass, swabbed the decks, worked in the galley and helped raise sails," says Hermann...
When the scientists returned 11 days later, it took them only minutes to find the skulls of two adults, probably male. Six days after that, Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia's Rift Valley Research Service found a third, the skull of a 6-or 7-year-old child, shattered into about 200 pieces. After years of painstaking cleaning, reassembly and study, the team was confident enough to tell the world that it had found the earliest true Homo sapiens--older by at least 1,000 generations than anything previously discovered. "It's not a modern human," says White...
...Handle" is an understatement. Cut marks on the skulls indicate that the overlying skin, muscles, nerves and blood vessels were removed, probably with an obsidian flake. Then a stone tool was scraped back and forth, creating faint clusters of parallel lines. The modification of the child's skull is even more dramatic. The lower jaw was detached, and soft tissues at the base of the head were cut away, leaving fine, deep cut marks. Portions of the skull were smoothed and polished...
...interior of Bom Jesus is folkish and crudely executed compared with its European prototypes, but the big draw is St. Francis' body, exhibited every 10 years and long held to be miraculously immune from decay. Judging by his partially exposed skull and missing parts, he may have finally succumbed, however. The next showing is scheduled for November...