Word: coffining
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...skies looked bleak for the Crimson. Harvard had its back against the wall. The final nail was being hammered into the coffin, Sportswriters were mixing their metaphors...
Isaac then appealed to the higher court. Its 27' page decision, released late Monday by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Frank M. Coffin, not only reinstated the case, but also will force Skinner to reconsider whether Harvard must reveal confidential information on tenure cases. In his decision, Coffin asked Skinner to review anew Isaac's request and to explain more thoroughly why it was originally denied...
...Coffin ruled that this was not the case because 27 days before the deadline passed, the MCAD decided not to process the case but to refer it back to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The referral back to the EEOC, which four years later gave Isaac notice of "right to sue," constituted, in Coffin's opinion, MCAD's official termination of administrative proceedings
...weed-covered tomb that had been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers...
...scene shot in available light look as if it were shot on a sound stage. But this virtue can be a defect, for it distances the audience from the grim occurrences. By the end of the film, DeWayne is dead, with an empty Coke can resting on his coffin. One does not question the truth of that shot, only the sensibility that permits it to survive the final cut. Streetwise keeps demonstrating the cliche that life too often resembles a bad movie. But there is more to be said here, and a less polished film might have encouraged a more...