Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers Field the accent was on defense. The three and a half hour workout started with skull work in the Field House and ended with 40-odd players doing windsprints by the light of the television tower; in between was mostly football...
...plot usually concerns a character named Just Simple Sam, who-although his house is on fire, his daughter has just eloped with a man who was seen coming out of a Henry Wallace rally . . . and he has had an automobile accident that has broken his back, fractured his skull and crushed both legs-is still able to crawl to the microphone and help the announcer explain the big contest and where you mail the box tops...
Died. Dr. Franz Weidenreich, 75, famed German-born anthropologist; in Manhattan. His research on Asiatic skull fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...
...Technicolor; color feeds the senses and cloys the mind, and this is not a poem of sensuousness, but of sensibility. There is something approaching, if not quite achieving, absolute depth of focus. There is no pageantry and no ornament; the great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers, against his sounding boards...
...keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with a pat on the head to a performing dog; Yorick's skull is poised with piercing ironic grace, cheek to cheek with his own living skull; the lost eyes stare into the audience as Hamlet says, very quietly, Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make...