Sentences with phrase «live men stacked»

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In present - day Afghanistan, Timur ordered the construction of a tower made out of live men, each stacked on top of another, and cemented together with bricks and mortar.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

Set in Columbus, Ohio, we meet Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man who lives in the poorer side of town known as «the Stacks.»

Nonfiction Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau) John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9 - 11, Iraq (Norton) Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco) Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward (FSG) Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War (Doubleday)

As for more traditional art subjects — the human figure and the still life — she stacks them up in a big, faceted relief of a muscular man protruding above a mass of wooden volumes.