Word: postmortem
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...along with a death cast of the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, connected at the chest. (Their fused liver sits in formaldehyde in a display tray below.) Floating inside a small glass bottle, item No. 13,671 is a thumb-size brown chunk of flesh "procured at the postmortem" of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. (Last week Booth's ancestors petitioned for exhumation of his body from Baltimore's Greenmount Cemetery, hoping to prove that the man killed by federal agents in 1865 was not the infamous actor. The descendants believe that the real Booth escaped and died...
...instrumental instrument in many a rock group. Heavy-metal outfits like Guns N' Roses and Metallica, as well as such megatheatrical performers as Janet Jackson and David Bowie, have shown that computerized control of stage lighting creates a wide range of effects. The Grateful Dead, on a perpetual postmortem tour, keeps things fresh with computerized psychedelia synchronized to the music and projected on big screens. The aim is to find a visual corollary to the spontaneity of live (or Dead) rock 'n' roll...
...Death will be gargling in dramas about AIDS (Philadelphia), the Nazi Holocaust (Schindler's List), Vietnam (Heaven and Earth) and plain old age (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway). It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's Ladder -- the Jack Kevorkian of '90s Hollywood...
...postmortem of the Oct. 3 battle that left 18 U.S. Army Rangers dead and 75 wounded has revealed that General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's loyalists used an ancient method to warn their comrades of the Rangers' attack -- they beat wooden sticks on drums, only in this case the drums were empty 50-gal. oil barrels. Followers of Aidid positioned at the Mogadishu airport began drumming when they saw the Rangers' helicopters take off, and as the message was heard, it was carried through the town by the same means...
...show. So far, Letterman has gone on a tour of the CBS Broadcast Center, manned a drive- up window at McDonald's and escorted Zsa Zsa Gabor through a New Jersey neighborhood in a segment titled "Do You Have a Question for Zsa Zsa?" (Letterman's postmortem: "Only one person asked her about slapping the cop. I thought that...