Word: coffined
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...Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis were recycling his 2001 Talk magazine article on that subject. A darkly hilarious story line about a corpse jostled from its coffin and wreaking havoc in the hold of a transatlantic jetliner deserves a novel of its own, but it doesn't belong in this one. Yet Amis' manic prose keeps Yellow Dog trotting along briskly. In Henry IX's office, "every plane had been harassed with ornament," and that describes Amis...
...afternoon, after the military escort left, a crowd of 300 locals and distant family members, all men, came and laid Iraqi flags over the fresh mounds of earth. Eleven chanted "No God but Allah" as they carried Mustafa's silver colored coffin to the freshly dug hole in the ground. "They are heroes, the sons of President Saddam Hussein," says Mahmoud Jemma Hamid, 19, who helped carry Mustafa to his final resting place. "The blood for Mustafa, Uday and Qusay will not go to waste," added Usama Hamid who used to work in the office of the President and helped...
Betsy placed two red roses on her husband's coffin before it was loaded into the hearse, led by a police car and trailed by a lone bagpiper. The wind was blowing, the sidewalks were full, and the air was silent, except for the pipes. It would have been Chris Coffin's 52nd birthday. --With reporting by Amanda Bower/Bethlehem, Nathan Thornburgh/Kennebunk and Simon Robinson/Baghdad
JULY 1 CHRIS COFFIN RANK: First Sergeant * AGE 51 * Kennebunk, Maine...
...this month, but many still refer to it like a much-loved, weirdo uncle who's no longer around?one who will be forever remembered because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing so. Indeed, the airport's closure was another nail in the coffin for the era of romantic travel?Kai Tak was the last embodiment of an age when commercial flying was a buzz. Even an airline amenity kit became a novelty when you flew into Hong Kong: the supplied blindfold was not for sleeping but for landing. And you only used the earplugs...