Word: mortician
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...Rican reporters; its editors decided that convention week was an ideal time to get started. It was edited for the occasion by Dick Tuck, an incorrigible prankster who delights in bedeviling Republican presidential candidates.* The Trib reported that the only "swinging" convention in town was being held by Negro morticians. Robert Miller, who had just been named Mortician of the Year, had a ready explanation. Unlike the Republicans, he said, "We got a lot of real work to do. We just can't be making up a lot of words that don't mean a thing...
There are drive-in movies, restaurants, laundries, banks and even churches-so why not a drive-in funeral home? Atlanta Mortician Hirschel Thornton, 49, will open one this week. The world's first monument to automotive mourning consists of five picture-windowed viewing rooms frontin on a curved, gravel driveway. So that drive-in mourners will not have to peer through rain-streaked windows, Thornton has covered the driveway with a roof. Another thoughtful touch: the windows reach almost to the ground, enabling passengers in even the lowest-slung foreign sports cars to get a good look without having...
...rather than the fact that he played it. Although a stratum of burly menace seems to underlie all his performances, there is uncommon variety in his characterizations. His recent range includes an evocation of Pope John XXIII in the semidocumentary And There Came a Man; Mr. Joyboy, the simpering mortician of The Loved One; the lascivious Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago; and his favorite role, the guilt-racked Nazerman in The Pawnbroker...
...Mortician on bass: With little chance for individual expression, he prides himself on being the "foundation of the orchestra." Tall, glum, plodding, he is quick to point out that he and his instrument are exceedingly manly...
...associates called him "The Builder," and well they might. In the space of 50 years, Millionaire Mortician Hubert Eaton transformed 55 acres of mud, brambles and neglected tombstones into the world's most famous necropolis-Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif. Half of Hollywood is buried there, amid rolling lawns, splashing fountains, marble statuary, all of which proclaims that Death Can Be Beautiful. Eaton's handiwork evoked virulent attack (Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death) and savage satire (Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One). In fact, the reality of Forest Lawn defied parody...