Word: tombs
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...time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon, that a passing English businessman mistook some decades ago for a model airplane.) Some also claim that Tanzanians 1,500 years ago were smelting steel with semiconductor technology. There is nothing to prove these tales, but nothing...
...retarded son is told in the voice of that man-child. His burbling narrative takes us through his day as he waits for his mother to rise, dress her thickened body and take up the constant guard she can never relinquish. Like the immobile, anonymous soldier guarding a tomb, she is always present but never animated as the pain of her predicament seeps into...
...stunning archaeological find -- and the best ad yet for cryogenics. Not only did this Late Stone Age mountain climber emerge in remarkably good shape from his icy tomb in the Italian Alps, but his tools and some of his clothing were intact -- a treasure trove scientists will be mining for years...
...like snakes. In a strange way, the two reports balance one another out. It may be ridiculous to accord Stone's movie a status coequal with the Warren report. On the other hand, the Warren report has endured through the years as a monolith of obscure suppression, a smooth tomb of denial. Stone's movie, for all its wild gesticulations, at least refreshes the memory and gets a long- cold curiosity and contempt glowing again...
...less, of this loopy, endearing novel (the author's first, it is surprising to realize) about the early days of radio. The time is the mid-'30s, the place is Studio B of Station WLT, Minneapolis. There is a jinx on Studio B, "the snakebite studio at WLT, the tomb of the radio mummy . . . Dad Benson gasped for breath during Friendly Neighbor and two huge flies dove into his throat and almost choked him . . . Reed Seymour once got the hiccups in there so bad his partial plate came off and he had to gum the news. And a week later...