Word: graveyard
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Three boys coming from the Garden Street graveyard. Young men of slight stature, who might, given sufficient provocation, carry a fork from the school cafeteria and extort dimes in the bathroom. A girl glides by and three heads snap with the comic suddenness of recalcitrant window shades. "Fine bod," they say behind their hands and pass on to higher conquest. They stop to dispute, and not knowing the civilized use of velleities, fall to pushing. "Hic Rhodus, hic salta," cries one. They just shove him again, which is clearly what he deserves...
...Living Arts, he hears a soundtrack from nature as raucous and insidious as the din of city traffic. Cockatoos screech and hippopotamuses snort. Over the stage stretch tangled plastic vines. On the walls are murky film blowups of lions, elephants and monkeys. A combination of bamboo palace and automobile graveyard, the set is a raked topography of danger, containing in one scene a Daliesque montage of severed human legs...
When Yovicsin left his cozy position at Gettysburg for Harvard in 1957, the New York Times reported that he was "headed for the coach's graveyard." It was a fairly accurate evaluation of the possibilities open to a Harvard coach. In the 10 years before Yovicsin's arrival, neither of two coaches could win half his games, and for good reasons...
There are numerous other characters, most of them deliberate caricatures, only a few of them funny. The Salvation Army lady and the police inspector are perhaps the best. The movie concludes with a mad chase through a graveyard, everybody dancing happily over an open grave...
...England's King William III in 1697, Trinity Church was put on the road to prosperity when an early colonial governor of New York gave its rector title to all wrecks and whales washed ashore on Manhattan. Early communicants included Alexander Hamilton, who is buried in the graveyard, George Washington, and even Pirate William Kidd, whose affiliation is commemorated by a plaque in the luxuriously carpeted vestry room. Later, such wealthy worshipers as John Jacob Astor contributed more marketable assets than whales to Trinity. Today, a vestry that includes New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and George...