Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who has already turned it down: Russert of Meet the Press. Whoever it is may find there are days where he shares the judgment of Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum at Columbia University: "Taking that job would be like jumping onto a funeral pyre...
...Welles in blackface, upside down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...
...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...