Word: crematoriums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is one of the questions that animates McEwan's eighth novel, Amsterdam (Doubleday; 193 pages; $21), the 1998 winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The composer in question is Clive Linley. He and his old friend Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, meet outside a London crematorium to say goodbye to Molly Lane, a glamorous and sexually generous woman dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved...
Here are the facts: Dr. Gerber and his wife are dead. Ten people, including nine family members, identified the bodies before cremation. No hip-replacement device was found in the crematorium. The medical examiner states that the Gerbers' bodies match premortem photos of the couple. The Gerbers' organs were donated to a medical center in Knoxville, Tenn., ensuring that tissues available for identification and testing were preserved...
Matthews's poetry reading included "My Father's Body," set in a crematorium during the funeral of the author's father and "Last Words," which compiled the final words and phrases of famous men and women...
...heartline. But other nations are experiencing their own unhealthy twitches. France has its National Front, led by the anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Doctor Petiot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man who perpetrated a personal holocaust by operating a crematorium in his furnace, was one of the most enigmatic figures of occupied France. By day, he was a good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster...