Word: coffining
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...nail in the coffin-the President's letter [to the Senate] that he wouldn't consider me-was no problem. This job was well worth a year of my life. There's a certain luxury to beginning again. I don't know for sure [what he will do next], but it's likely that I'll save some time for politics...
...worked on Badlands. "We were getting along so well," Spacek remembers, "I thought it couldn't last. He was the first guy I ever really relaxed around." The marriage has flourished, despite some rather odd exigencies. During Carrie, Art Director Fisk had to seal his wife in a coffin-shaped box and bury her under several layers of rock...
Were it not for the fact that two of my bambini are native-born napoletani, I would not challenge the statement [Nov. 1] that Mafia Leader Joe Bonanno "is credited with inventing the split-level coffin...
...with a machine gun. There is the woman from public broadcasting who calls Jennifer to ask whether she'd like to participate in a seminar on the female orgasm in literature. There is the airplane cargo door that opens in mid-flight, releasing, out of all the cargo, a coffin. The coffin lands in the garden of a recently widowed woman who draws the obvious conclusion...
...control of his old New York family-which his fellow mobsters pushed him out of twelve years ago, when he began to infringe on their turfs -and then grab Gambino's crown. Bonanno's forte is treachery-and innovation. He is credited with inventing the split-level coffin. Instead of leaving his victims for police to find, he would have them taken to a Brooklyn funeral home and put in the lower compartment of a coffin. On top would be someone who died of natural causes. The pair went to the grave together. At one time or another...