Sentences with phrase «once embalmed»
For one thing the departed, once embalmed, always looks like a stranger.
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That summer, Johnson opened the company's first East Coast store in a small, rented house behind a funeral parlor in Wellesley, Mass., and started shippling shoes in cartons that once contained embalming fluid.
Once you are embalmed, meaning your blood has been drained, rigor mortis has set in, and your brain and other organs have been deprived of oxygen for 48 hours you ain't getting back up off that table!
The Stuckists take what media opportunities they can to attack the work of Britain's top contemporary artists, especially Damien Hirst, famous for displaying an embalmed sheep and opening a trendy restaurant in London; Chris Ofili, whose black Madonna adorned with elephant dung enraged New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1999 when it showed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and Tracey Emin, who once exhibited her own used bed in a gallery.