Word: coffining
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...saying, 'Will they actually listen?'" says Krzyzewski (pronounced Sha-shef-skee) in the nasal baritone of a high school chemistry teacher. It's a demeanor that deftly shades one of the fiercest competitors in sports. "If you don't have anxieties, you might as well drop in the old coffin...
...terms, most of this works. Cage is especially fine. He tamps down his familiar eccentricities, and lends McLoughlin a laser stare of dread as he lies in his metal cage he thinks has become his coffin. After he's rescued and brought out on a stretcher, McLoughlin's gesture of touching the hand of each helper and saying "Thank you" has a heart-touching simplicity and nobility...
...Duke now, I'm saying, "Will they actually listen?" explains Krzyzewski in the nasal baritone of high school chemistry teacher. It's a demeanor that deftly shades one of the fiercest competitors in all sports. "If you don't have anxieties, you might as well drop in the old coffin...
...public may not really be so squeamish. In a 2003 CBS News/New York Times poll, two-thirds of Americans disagreed with the ban on coffin photos. This year, when HBO aired the gory documentary Baghdad ER, about a military hospital, 3.5 million people watched, a huge number for a cable documentary. It's not clear, for that matter, that seeing the horrors of war plays against Republicans at all. Images are hard to control. Pictures of war dead could produce a rallying effect--finish the job, get those who did this to us. And there's a school of thought...
...most affecting argument against making the coffin photos explicitly political is concern for the families of the dead. But their beliefs about the images--and about the war--are not monolithic, and their interests, sadly, are not the only ones at stake. Just as our troops fight for all of us, they also die for all of us. Families, pundits and pols can disagree on what the flag that shrouds those coffins stands for. But that flag is not, and should never be, a blindfold...