The fundamental French response to any kind of public outpouring of sentiment, good or bad, is the manif, or demonstration: thousands, often hundreds of thousands, of people marching together in the street, bodies and voices operating in unison.
In this marble cemetery and, later, in the New York City Marble Cemetery, a block away on Second Street, bodies were placed in dry underground stone vaults that were believed to reduce the risk of contagion.
While Wall Street body-slammed the company for one lackluster quarter, in that same period sales of Lucent's most advanced optical gear doubled, and its data network business grew 60%.
This is the life we've got used to: rockets, bullets, killing children dead in the streets, body parts.
A mammoth bust-up between Labour and the unions led to the "winter of discontent", with strikes causing rubbish to pile up in the streets, bodies to remain unburied and petrol stations to run out of fuel.
In the novel's first third — against a background of tanks and soldiers occupying the city's streets, bodies being tossed from apartment windows, and men Pato's age being discovered with their throats cut — Englander shows a family bracing against the inevitable.
It is worth remembering that at the time Mr. Acconci began these performances, the nightly news was full of pictures of young Americans coming home in body bags, of other young Americans being tear-gassed and beaten in the streets: bodies imperiled in distinctly nonmetaphoric ways.
A short distance further up the street another body with a smashed face lay next to a garbage dump.
Photographs showed Nepalese security officers arriving as the protester stood in the middle of the street, his body consumed by flames and black smoke.
In Dujiangyan, children lay on the street in body bags; in Hanwang, they were stored on concrete ping-pong tables in the schoolyard; in Beichuan, the ground was thick with small corpses, ghostly with dust.
