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...richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of a swami, sect undetermined, to transfer her mind and soul at the moment of death into the healthy body of Terry (Victoria Tennant), the daughter of one of her servants. Then, darn the luck, the sacred urn containing Edwina's essence fell out of a window and onto Roger in the street below. The left side of his body and mind is still male, still Roger, and not a little vexed at having to share the place with an uncongenial new tenant; the right side is prissy...
...characters is the movie's greatest shortcoming. Although they may be mere caricatures, they nevertheless appear human enough to arouse the audience's interest, even if only for their peculiarity. But Fellini, alas never satisfies that interest. The connections between the passengers and the ashes in the urn remain unclear all through. "And the Ship Sails On," and the burial seems little else than the director's pretext for gathering a bunch of people on a doomed ship. The funeral's insignificance convinces the audience that something else must happen, a lack of subtlety that mars the film...
...first complaints about Harbor Lawn came three years ago, when Audrey Cooper, 72, received a burial urn containing what she thought was the ashes of her husband William. A family friend named Jerry Read, who had once worked for Harbor Lawn but quit in disgust, told the widow that the remains were not her husband's. Says Read: "Bodies were doubled up on shelves in the refrigerator. When they got full, they'd stack the bodies on the garage floor and leave them there for days." Read and other former employees further charge that bins full of excess...
...rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...despite the loss of Captain Rony Sebok for most of October, the women's squad "managed to hang in there without her," according to sophomore Jamie Jenkins, winning the New England Women's Championships last weekend to keep the coveted Victorian Coffee Urn for the second year in snow. When Yatch Racing ranks the nation's 20 best women's teams this December for the first time, Harvard will be sixth, says Ken Legler, Tufts sailing coach and one of three who decide the ranking...