Word: coffining
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...second quarter, with the Big Green already down 21-0, Balestracci applied the nail in the coffin. Dartmouth tried some trickery, lining up in a "diamond" formation that put receivers all over the place and the quarterback in the shotgun. With all the post-snap confusion caused by this offensive creativity, Dartmouth tried to run a fairly safe play, a shovel pass. It should have worked...
...ride it until it breaks. The early scenes of BW2 are entirely self-aware and play like a wicked little horror satire, from the inspired opening montage to, even better, a group of awestruck foreign tourists that stare at the trees with wide-eyed wonder while babbling about Coffin Rock and little stick figures. These are the glimmers of the film I dearly wish Berlinger decided to pursue. Instead, he has his troupe camp out in the woods and, after a night of drunken revelry, awake to find their memory of the last five hours blank and their campsite...
...eulogies not just for late Missouri governor Mel Carnahan but the sailors killed on the USS Cole, which took over half his first response. By the time he cited Carnahan's record in a later question on affirmative action, we were witness to a classic instance of Gore-esque coffin-riding, ? la his 1992 and 1996 convention speeches. (Whereas Bush, thankfully quickly, wished God's blessings on those whose "lives were overturned...
...have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly too stiff to be asleep, lies in the bed of his coffin...
...Clay are the novel's protagonists. They create a comic-book crusader known as the Escapist, an unabashed projection of Kavalier's revenge fantasies. A young artist with Harry Houdini's ability to pick locks while holding his breath, Kavalier has escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin containing the mythic Golem of Prague, and yearns to make enough money to help his family flee Adolph Hitler, or Attila Haxoff as Kavalier's overly cautious boss at Empire Comics insists on calling the dictator...