Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral procession, ending with a solemn cortege in which the vibraphone is held aloft like a coffin...
...next season there was that great shutout win over Cornell which was the final nail in the coffin for the Big Red's playoff hopes. I can still hear the band saying, "It's Valentine's Day, and you can't score...
...white residents to move out. An interracial grass-roots campaign was organized to fight the proposed rezoning, and at least for the time being, has succeeded. Says an elated Peter Parkin, a city councilman and head of the Open Woodstock campaign: "The first nail is being driven into the coffin of residential segregation in South Africa...
...stout pine coffin containing the body of Miguel Sotomayor Urbina was brought out of the family's wooden shack and carried through the dusty streets of Managua's Villa Cuba neighborhood. There was no honor guard and no red-and- black flag draped over the coffin, as there usually is for young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft...
...coffin was lowered into the earth, the protest grew more voluble. "You sons of bitches are killing us like dogs!" yelled a tearstained pallbearer, pointing his finger at an official of the local Sandinista defense committee. "Just leave us alone...