Word: parlorized
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...deep hurt for the family. I can't believe they would actually send a body to the funeral parlor and not know it was the wrong body," he said...
...books, of death. Where Harnett is weakest and most derivative is, precisely, where he tried to tell his stories. He liked mild, kitschy allegorizing. His invocations of the past (the classical bronze and the broken copy of Cervantes' Don Quixote in The Old Cupboard Door, 1889, for instance) are parlor antiquarianism with nothing to say about history. What they respond to is the diffuse sentimentality about the past felt by people ill at ease with the rawness and bustle of the American republic, in the days before bric-a- brac became "collectibles...
...signs up -- there are about 6 million subscriptions to go around -- gets a new number with a 700 area code. Subscribers pay $25 up front and $7 a month after that. Then the number travels with you forever. Visit Aunt Martha and your calls will follow you into her parlor. Move to a new neighborhood or a new state -- keep the same number. All it takes is 27 digits punched into the nearest phone, and calls made to the 700 number will be routed there by AT&T's computers (that may seem excessive, but some people now have...
...THREE YEARS, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed," says Beulah McKee, 75. Her bitterness has still not subsided. But seated in the parlor of her house in Trafford, Pennsylvania, the house where her son was born 43 years ago, she struggles to speak serenely. "I know that's not what our President wants me to say," she admits...
...What if . . .?" For historians the question can be a great parlor game, launching all-night arguments over what would have happened if, say, Hitler had got the Bomb or Pickett had not charged at Gettysburg. Nowadays one of the hottest questions involves speculating about what John Kennedy would have done in Vietnam had he not been killed in November...