Word: coffining
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...desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear light into one of Manhattan's open wounds...
...first Earl of Cathcart, former British Ambassador to Russia and a close friend of Alexander's. It slipped quietly out of the harbor the next day, bearing south and east to the Holy Land, where a "mysterious passenger"-ostensibly Alexander-made a tour of sacred shrines. The coffin was opened only once en route to the capital, and then only immediate relatives were permitted to look inside...
...respectful mystification" to Paul Tillich, I offer a footnote to your excellent article [Oct. 29]. While Niebuhr may well have been the sparkplug in the action leading to Tillich's coming to Union, it could have been only the president of the seminary, the late Henry Sloane Coffin, who offered him the post. Much more interesting is how it was financed. The seminary's income in those days was low, and "Uncle Henry," as we called Dr. Coffin, could not suddenly provide a new faculty salary. The first-year salary came in large part from contributions from other...
...except for Marvin's gags, the movie is pretty dull. The Nazi overtones are crushing. There no surprises. The most exciting moment comes near the end when the doctor's coffin is being wheeled away. It almost topples off the cart...
...living it up in Dar es Salaam. Voters who showed up at one rally greeted their Congressman with such prolonged boos that he went home and shot himself, "accidentally," in the hand. Another was haunted by the local witch-doctor, who went so far as to put a bloodstained coffin containing a strangled chicken outside the polling booth on election...