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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Forget Politics | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Basic Spacek: Keeping Life Tidy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 22, 1976 | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Patchwork absurdities | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: AFTER THE DON: A DONNYBROOK? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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