Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...manage this somewhat more gracefully than Americans do. My friend Gloria Guinness, who is married to Loel of the banking (not brewing) Guinnesses, claims that it's easier to maintain four houses than one. Her four are in Paris, Normandy, Switzerland and Palm Beach, and she keeps a skeleton staff of servants and a complete wardrobe in each house so that she and Loel don't have to tote stuff around. "Without luggage," she says, "you don't have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually accompanied by a basic...
From the Circus. In 1962, Italian Anthropologist Venerando Correnti identified the bones-which consist of approximately half a skeleton-as those of a robustly built man about 5 ft. 4 in. in height and between 65 and 72 years of age. An analysis of the dirt found with the bones, Dr. Guarducci claimed, showed that it had come from the area near the circus of Nero, where Peter was crucified...
...there is just a skeleton organization," said Engelhardt. "We expect students to eventually fill it out and take it over." He hopes that when Project members disperse to their colleges this fall they will use their experience in political activities there...