Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...reason offered for unearthing these notables is to determine how they died, or if they were as dead as they were originally said to be. Forensic experts wanted to exhume President Taylor to discover if he was poisoned, and Booth and James to see if in fact they occupied the graves that were assigned to them. One assumes that in the case of the Bordens someone wanted to count the number of whacks...
That so far has hardly been proved. President Taylor, whom more people wanted to look at in 1991 than did in the first place, was believed to have been done in with arsenic. On July 4, 1850, he ate a bowl of cherries and downed a glass of buttermilk; a few days later he was dead. In 1991 the subject was brought up again, his tissue samples were assailed with neutrons, and the forensic conclusion was that he had not been poisoned after all. Scientists were disappointed. But historians guessed rightly that a glass of buttermilk without arsenic is enough...
...Copley, you'll find the grand department stores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
...Heavy, Tyler is the siren who leads a sad-sack cook (Pruitt Taylor Vince) to a full realization of the sweet misery of life. His bar-diner, which often looks deserted except for one resident grouse, is the anti-Cheers; it should be called Blahs. Heavy is a mood piece, which means there's not much going on and ain't ever gonna be. The characters shop, eat, sleep, do some world-class moping and, in general, wait for something the hell to happen. And all that happens...