Word: coffining
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...corner of Center and Broad is the Jared Coffin House, a wonderful old red brick inn renovated in 1963. Jared's features a delicious fresh seafood buffet on Sunday evenings...
...drew in a breath and then spoke, her clear voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was on trial for his murder...
...soon as O'Neill's coffin is across the threshold, the entire press pool and about thirty Secret Service agents headed for the White Hen Pantry. Inside, a girl working behind the counter says in response to a reporter's question: "Yes, it is definitely not your average day at the White Hen Pantry...
...Neill's family hugged in the bitter wind as pall-bearers carried his flag-draped coffin up the church steps...
...with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until he has sung some dreadful treacle about the last rose in his garden. After that, there can't be anyone in the house who isn't thinking that there's gotta be a way to keep this whatever-it-is together and take it on the road...