Word: mortician
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...within a noble tradition--qualiti es that informed his art, if not his personality. As for Viv, she must have been beguiled by the oddity of their coupling, his Jeeves to her Zelda, and by the challenge of unearthing the soul of a poet beneath the manners of a mortician...
Hamlets were cut off by the vagaries of Interstate routes. Along South Carolina's old Highway 301, prosperous towns like Olanta (pop. 700), eight miles off the new Interstate 95, quickly withered. Explains Mortician and Olanta Mayor J. Kelton Floyd: "In 1963, during one three-month period, we shipped 27 bodies out of state. Last year we didn...
...Harvard women's tennis team buried Brown, 6-3, yesterday at Palmer Dixon Courts, but the mortician exacted what may prove a deadly price...
...defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance, was discovered to be alive only when a mortician saw blood flowing from a vein into which he was about to inject embalming fluid...
...David, Tom and Danilo were the best of friends. And they all loved the same girl." David (Michael Huddleston) is a fat, funny Jew, welded by family tradition into his niche as a middle-class mortician. Tom (Jim Metzler) is tall, quiet, athletic, a reluctant ladykiller; he goes to Viet Nam and brings back a native wife and two children. Danilo (Craig Wasson) is Tesich's maturing self-image: breezing through high school and college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country...