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She included a piece of red streaked mortician's wax worn by her father, with the caption: "They made my dad's hand look like it was cut."

Elderly Zombies Win the Undying Loyalty of Their Fans Clare Ansberry 2010

There is triumph and tragedy, happiness and heartbreak, the mortician's wife who took a nap in a coffin, an Easter morning $1.87 robbery and murder on a golf course, a physician who wore hot pants and made house calls on a motorcycle.

Writing about writers: Puerto Vallarta and Jenny McGill 2009

Using wire, fish skin, cotton and mortician's wax, he spent more than three hours daily applying his own makeup, painfully contorting his features into a nightmarish "grinning skull".

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Throughout the book he characterizes dozens of recordings of Mahler's works, often with slash-and-burn criticism ( "every sound" in Pierre Boulez's performance of the Sixth Symphony is "strung out like entrails on a mortician's table") and sometimes with bouts of adulation that suggest the ideal of a definitive or "best" account.

A Fierce Enthusiasm Leon Botstein 2010

There is triumph and tragedy, happiness and heartbreak, the mortician's wife who took a nap in a coffin, an Easter morning $1.87 robbery and murder on a golf course, a physician who wore hot pants and made house calls on a motorcycle.

Writing about writers: Puerto Vallarta and Jenny McGill 2009

Daigo, the protagonist of Departures, is an unemployed cellist who, with his wife, retreats to his rural hometown and takes a job as a mortician's assistant, preparing bodies for cremation.

David Wallechinsky: Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film 2009

My uncle, who is a funeral director, went to a mortician's conference one year and actually did find a dead body on the toilet in the hotel bathroom.

I See Dead People 2008

The magic of the mortician's hand has turned his poor girl's body into something she would have been proud to live in.

Great Regulars: Ella [Wheeler Wilcox]'s most famous poem Rus Bowden 2007

Every picture I have seen of her makes her look like she just left the mortician's.

Top 10 Funniest Political Moments of 2006. Ann Althouse 2006

Not with Juanita lying cold and naked on some mortician's pallet.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005