Word: coffin
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When Edouard Manet died of tertiary syphilis in 1883 at the age of 51, Emile Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé; the latter called him "goat-footed, a virile innocence in beige overcoat, beard and thin blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that...
...greatness as a formal artist and no other word for his achievement will do, is not to be predicated solely on the way his work anticipated the desires of later painters. The paintings, seen in themselves, do not look so very flat anyway. As Art Historian Anne Coffin Hanson points out in one of the catalogue's searching essays, they reproduce flatter than they are. In reality, "surface qualities come into play . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight...
...national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. Thus umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends service committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activities Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin the Inter-Faith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee in Africa and Trans Africa...
Medvedev's description of Brezhnev's funeral rites contains some wondrously macabre details. When the overweight leader's body was placed in its coffin at Moscow's Hall of Trade Unions, the bottom of the shoddily made box collapsed, and the body fell to the floor. A new, metal-reinforced casket was later taken to the burial site on Red Square, where it was supposed to be reverently lowered into an open grave. What actually happened remained unexplained to the millions of Soviet citizens watching the televised interment. The coffin proved too heavy...
...national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC), founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter-Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...