Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whom they lost to the coffin...
...nameless "I" character-or noncharacter. In one story, a decrepit figure, whose hat covers a pustule on top of his skull, is expelled from his boardinghouse and wanders until he comes to rest in a cab in a stable. In another story, a tortured soul gradually constructs his own coffin by hammering boards across the top of an abandoned rowboat...
...terrorizes less by his inveterate plots than by his malignantly charged presence, mesmerizing those whom he would murder. Called "a bottled spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion, he converts Anne's grief and loathing into something like coquetry...
There is no question where this Body soon will be interred: television. It is ironic that the box that once gave Caesar such life may one day become his movie's coffin...
...successes (including The Knack and The Jokers) to be able to say with justifiable immodesty: "I expect to see Fame arriving next week in a little, neatly labeled package." The only thing that could waylay Fame would be for Crawford himself to wind up prematurely in a neatly labeled coffin...