Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caper flicks, as the trade calls them invariably involve some lovable folk; who pull off an enormous and improbable heist, only to be foiled in the last reel by a freakish turn of fate. Disaster can come in many forms: a runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean's 11), or a kid with a photographic memory (The League of Gentlemen). At their best, caper movies can be wry little existential parables; at their worst, they are merely two hours of closeups on nervous thieves and unyielding safe dials...
...Boston, at which Spock and three others were accused and later convicted of conspiring to encourage draft resistance. Brewster also reportedly felt that publication of such an article would appear close to the time when the Yale Corporation was considering the re-appointment of Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., one of Spock's co-defendants...
...more coherent of the mul tiple story lines concerns Barnabas' quest for a bride. Since he comes out of his coffin home only after dark, he prefers supper dates, and six times has mixed his fatal business with pleasure. "The whole essence of my character," says Frid earnestly, "is guilt over my hang-up-vampirism-and my bites suffer. I envy the bites of the two other vampires. They are positively erotic...
...Mississippi, whom he met last year while helping Kennedy conduct hearings on poverty in the state; he for the second time; in McLean, Va. Edelman wore an off-white Nehru jacket, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg quoted a little Dickens, and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale's recently convicted antidraft chaplain, read the vows...
Still, most islanders admit that Beinecke's development, even if executed somewhat imperiously, is far superior to anything a quick-buck developer would put up. Says Philip Read, who runs Beinecke's Jared Coffin House and has been around long enough to be considered an "islander": "If Nantucket becomes a little sophisticated, a little high-priced, then I think it's all right. If it becomes a Coney Island, I think it's dead...