Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner, a grief-stricken collie resting its head on its master's coffin...
...Plante's seventh novel is a textbook example of such successful reticence. Its narrator, Daniel Francoeur, is a writer living in London; he pays three visits to his aging parents in Providence, the last of them on the occasion of his father's funeral. Standing beside the coffin with his six brothers, Daniel finds himself weeping: "Then, with a little jolt, I felt that I was being dramatic, and my sobbing stopped...
...foreign airline in Johannesburg doesn't think Blacks will be ready for the vote for at least another 15 or 20 years. A guide, who voted against the Nationalists in the last election because "every time they hold back (on reform) they're driving another nail in my coffin," opposes granting Blacks the vote "until they've been properly educated...
...NOTEBOOK: Villaneuva also handled the punting for Harvard, lofting six for a 35.8 average, including a perfect coffin-corner kick. Senior punter Steve Flach, the incumbent, did make the trip, however...Junior Scott McCabe was Harvard's fourth-leading rusher, carrying five times for 26 yards...
When Bobby Sands died on hunger strike in March, he was not the first Irishman to be carried out of jail in a coffin; the continuing troubles in the North of Ireland provide a link, however tragic, to the country's history. "The violence is rooted in a very long tradition," Kelleher says, but he adds there have been new developments. "Up to this point, the violence has been a recurrent thing. The outbursts would last for one or two years and then subside," he says. The current troubles have been going on since 1968, though, and "the amount...