Word: graveyard
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...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...
...tomb became a tourist attraction. John became famous. He used to spend his Sundays at the graveyard, watching folks gawking at his marble likenesses. His relatives quit bothering him. He used up all his money, retired to the Brown County poor farm and lived at public expense. Last week he died, aged 92. Those who attended the funeral said he looked satisfied...
...tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
...burying ground contains two anomalies Samuel McChord Crothers, a great Unitarian minister and essayist, is buried here by his own request, though he was not even born until after the graveyard had retired from active service. In a far corner, near where Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue join, lies an ancient mile stone proclaiming on one side over the date 1734 that the distance to Boston is eight miles and on the other side over the date 1794 that it is two and a quarter miles. Obviously there had been some improvements in transportation across the Charles...
...camera technique of "Best Years" is, without exception, of high excellence--as in the shots of America, seen through the plexiglass of a hedge-hopping Army bomber, in the pictures of the vast airplane graveyard, and in the close-ups of the film's characters. Equally impressive are the fine performances given by all who take part in the production; March and Andrews are especially good. This reviewer would have enjoyed the picture a bit more if it had featured Russell's psychological, rather than mechanical, triumph over his artificial hands, and if, in another scene...