Even former political enemies, perhaps not wishing to speak ill of the dead, offered praise.
Those rows on rows of dead offered a potential indictment of the living.
The Uses of the Dead offers an alternate origin story for this judicial power, grounded in modern, secular concerns.
"The silence of the famous dead offers an enormous temptation to the self-promoting living," she observes, but more than opportunism is at stake.
Richard Nelson, who wrote the book for "James Joyce's 'The Dead,' " offers "Rodney's Wife" (July 7-18), anout Americancactortor in Rome in 1962.
It relates a man's experiences in the first seven days after his death; the world of the dead offers a relief from the sorrow and inhumanity that permeate the world of the living.
"Comic Book Men," which will be shown on AMC following its hit comic book adaptation, "The Walking Dead," offers a mixture of these day-to-day interactions; visits to the store by hard-core collectors (including one who owns both a 1960s-era Bandobile and the Green Hornet's car, the Black Beauty); and freewheeling conversations among the Secret Stash employees, Mr. Smith and Mr. Johnson.
The Walking Dead offered up its best episode of the season Sunday night, giving us some decent fight scenes and shoot-outs and raising the tension up a notch.
On the simplest level, "The Walking Dead" offered opportunities for pure, escapist entertainment with my son during the worst year of our lives.
It might look cartoony, but The Walking Dead offers conclusive evidence that games can tell stories every bit as engrossing, as affecting, as those in other mediums.
