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...order to produce lavish advertisements or political arguments. It invites forms of expression that venture well beyond those of the trusty but limited poster. As a consequence, messages in chalk become more than advertisements. They are transformed into part of our physical landscape, something that manipulates the very skeleton of our campus...
...that was on the cover of the old Skeleton Crew paperback? Right. And he'd like to do The Long Walk, which is one of the Bachman books [written by King under a pseudonym]. But The Long Walk is so downbeat, it makes The Mist look like Young Frankenstein...
...Rich though they are in curiosities, the collections have real scientific clout. They include more than 10,000 types, the specimens used to name and describe new species, as well as examples of creatures now rare (Gilbert's potoroo) or extinct (the skeleton of a Tasmanian tiger). Museum pays tribute to the science, both in Hay's historical essay and in the careful notes on each photograph: "The discrepancy between the information given here and the label on the bird's stand reflects a taxonomic refinement...
...from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from time to time.A small sign states it’s a model, and it stands alongside a real dodo skeleton, but some visitors leave thinking they’ve seen a preserved specimen—until someone tells them otherwise.“It’s like the dodo has died again,” Peter F. Hedman ’10 said on a recent visit...
...appearing in New York, Houston and Los Angeles: Santa Muerte. The personage is Mexico's idolatrous form of the Grim Reaper: a skeleton - sometimes male, sometimes female - covered in a white, black or red cape, carrying a scythe, or a globe. For decades, thousands in some of Mexico's poorest neighborhoods have prayed to Santa Muerte for life-saving miracles. Or death to enemies. Mexican authorities have linked Santa Muerte's devotees to prostitution, drugs, kidnappings and homicides. The country's Catholic church has deemed Santa Muerte's followers devil-worshiping cultists. Now Santa Muerte has followed the thousands...