Word: coffining
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...from failure Like many a city congregation, New York's interdenominational Riverside Church, where Harry Emerson Fosdick once held forth, has suffered a slow membership decline, from 3,300 to 2,600 over the past decade. To turn things around, the church has hired flamboyant Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, 53, who during 17 years as chaplain of Yale led many civil rights and antiwar rallies and twice went to jail...
...with the yellow envelope." Normally, Western Union tried to send someone older, gentler, to break the news. And even when the bodies came home, the families were not so sure. Remembers one man: "There was much talk in the neighborhood that they just put sand or rocks in the coffin and didn't have bodies in a lot of them because there wasn't anything to put in." In one strange story, a husband was reported killed. His wife waited a year and then remarried, only to have her first husband reappear like Enoch Arden. The man decided...
...note of one another. In "Black Breakfast" Michael Mao and Elizabeth Mallinckrodt cavort on and off, first mindlessly motioning like rock dancers, then dressing up to parade as nobility. They end dumping their pile of costumes on the head of Sally Lewiecki, who throughout lies inertly on a black coffin-like box, showing us only her chalk-white face and her hands gesturing like non-human flesh...
...best place for it is in a museum, where people can enjoy it. I have four children, so I could split up the collection and give it to them. But I felt that after I died, if God would grant me the privilege of rising up from the coffin, I might come back and see my collection sold and my heirs riding around in big cars and fur coats. So this is the way I've decided...
...bullied, beaten and finally shot. Some reports even had it that Amin himself had pulled the trigger, but Amin angrily denied the charge, and there were, of course, no firsthand witnesses. Amin refused to allow the archbishop's family to view his body before soldiers buried the sealed coffin in his native village. Some Ugandans doubted that the coffin contained Luwum's remains; they suspected that Amin had destroyed the evidence of murder by burning the body or feeding it to the crocodiles...