Word: morticians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching the show these days is a wearying experience. Ellen leafing through the Gay Yellow Pages: "Check out the abs on that mortician." A friend of Ellen's opening a bottle of Fire Island Lager and reading the cap: "I'm a winner! Two free tickets to Lord of the Dance!" The writers have decided to find humor in gay stereotypes, but there is something brittle and off-putting about this. While that strategy may work in the movie In & Out, Ellen seems to be reaching for a campiness that doesn't suit it. Those flaws aside, the real problem...
Randle and Schmitt bolstered their tale with accounts by Roswell witnesses, some of whom had earlier been ferreted out and interviewed by Friedman. The most notable of their sources was Glenn Dennis, who in 1947 was 22 and working as a mortician. Dennis told of receiving inquiries from the air base that July about the availability of child-size coffins and procedures for embalming bodies that had been exposed to the weather for days...
...been about pulling one over on the mainstream," he admits. Part Boy George and part Oliver Stone, Manson intentionally crafts his image to incite maximum shock. He often performs clad in jackboots and trussed up in leather. Onstage and off, he wears black lipstick and cakes his face in mortician's white, giving himself a deathly, freshly exhumed look...
...home, an independent, charged $185 for embalming, but Loewen's N.S. Griggs charged $425. "When the uninformed consumer walks through the door and it happens to be their misfortune to select a Loewen Group home, they're going to pay at least 15% more," says Don Flynn, a Canadian mortician and industry gadfly...
...someone he's not, too circumspect to slobber over someone else's baby, and plenty proud of the concrete things he has done to improve the lives of working families like the Dirkses. The people who aren't so sure they like Bob Dole see once again the National Mortician, brusque, impenetrable, embalmed by Washington, who looks like it hurts to smile...