Word: bones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back trouble, which made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler-one showing the muscles of Ivan's left side, and the other showing what...
...teeth are far from immune to the processes of graft rejection. Even their enamel, he said, may touch off an immune reaction. The root is slowly whittled away by scavenger cells in the bloodstream of the tooth's new owner, and is replaced with soft tissue or new bone, which is why the crown eventually falls...
...slaughter may just turn out to be a shadow victory, however. Tom Engle, probably the team's best midfielder, broke his collar bone in the second half. Before he was injured, Engle scored three goals, and in the game against Brown he put in the winning point. The team will now have to do without his services...
...Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional." After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism. Now she lives in a bone-white flat with white-painted floors as stark as her work. She designs on graph paper, often resorts to math books for inspiration, turns the actual execution over to apparently myopic artisans to reproduce on canvas...
...last film of French Director Jacques Becker, who died shortly after completing it in 1960, Night Watch engages interest on several levels. As a straight thriller, it is taut, bone-bare, agonizingly suspenseful, and flawlessly acted by its leading players, all nonprofessionals (except Mark Michel as Gaspard). As a movie about prison life, it is authentic; La Santé's guards are not brutes, they are merely inhumanly efficient machines, trained to perform surgery on the contents of a food parcel, to count skulls in the numbered cubicles where prisoners contemplate their anonymity. As a meaningful human drama...