Word: mourner
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...half an hour or so the ploy works, as jerry-built narrative if not as inspired physical comedy. Then Clouseau's plane is reported missing and an embarrassing elegy begins. "Men like Clouseau never die," intones one mourner. "They're unique. They help us preserve our sense of humor." Not, alas, when we are invited to genuflect at the coffin. Better to recall the lively Sellers-Clouseau: facing every indignity with stoic fatuity, bulldogging through the minefield of his own ineptitude, working new variations on that preposterous French accent. What a shame we will never hear...
...slain youth's graveside they showed they were also not ready to give in. As Wlosik's wooden coffin was carried from the cemetery chapel, a couple unfurled the union's banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left...
...know that a moirologist is a professional mourner, that an anthracomancer tells fortunes by means of burning coals, and that a mumpsimus is someone who refuses to correct an error (this last being derived from a 16th century priest who kept using that word when reciting the Mass even though he had been repeatedly told that he was supposed to say sumpsimus). But how many people are aware that pizzlesprung is a Kentucky word to describe the weary, or that nutation is the wobble in the earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that...
...entire run was sold out. In the past few weeks, scalpers have reportedly commanded $170 per ticket, but practically speaking, tickets do not exist. Even for the insider's insider, there are no strings left to be pulled. At one recent New York City-area funeral, a mourner's first question about the deceased was "What about her Nicholas Nickleby ticket?" Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization and one of the co-producers who footed the $4.4 million cost of importing the show from London (the others: Gerald Schoenfeld, Elizabeth McCann, Nelle Nugent and James Nederlander), estimates...
...buried in St. Paul's, and his monument bears a stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner, a grief-stricken collie resting its head on its master's coffin...