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Among the most eye-catching is an ad for N.R.A. memberships, with its promise of “$5,000 Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance.”

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Its walls are covered with posters, photos and album covers of the bands he has worked with: Bad Brains, Minor Threat, the Neighbors, Dismemberment Plan .

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021

In the ’90s, Morrison fronted the beguilingly peculiar D.C. band the Dismemberment Plan.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

There must have been over 300 people and it was 199-capacity,” said Travis Morrison of the Dismemberment Plan.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2016

“I will here express but one sentiment,” Hamilton warned his Federalist colleagues, “which is, the Dismemberment of our Empire will be a clear sacrifice...without any counterbalancing good.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis