Word: postmortem
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Will morbid curiosity attract some listeners? Of course. But MCA is trying to avoid looking like postmortem profiteers. A press release accompanying advance copies of the CD expresses a wish to avoid "the appearance [of] exploitation of Bradley's death," although it then goes on to say that "if there is one last gift" Nowell could give to his bandmates, his widow and baby boy, it was "financial security...
...Likud's swing toward moderation was greatly influenced by Yigal Amir's assassination of Rabin. "This is the one event that has tempered the campaign more than any other," says political scientist Aryeh Unger of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "There's a postmortem charisma about Rabin that has pushed everyone toward the positions he espoused." Gadish, the floating voter, says the motives of Rabin's assassin account for some of his reservation about voting for Netanyahu. "I'd feel awful if Yigal Amir got what he wanted," he says...
That pretty much sums up the looks on their faces and the words out of their mouths at the postgame postmortem (otherwise known as a press conference) after Harvard's 24-21 loss to Fordham...
...Says her brother Quintanilla: "I'm very pleased with the way the album came out. But to be honest, it's not a quarter of what the album might have been if she had been able to finish it." How good could the CD have been? As with all postmortem music, it is a question without an answer...
...Really! Everybody has said this. I don't know where it all started, but it must have started somewhere. I don't really think he is remote from the book. I mean, he's there at the finding of the body. He's there at the postmortem. He's in charge of the investigation, he goes down to the country to see Jean-Philippe Etiene, he goes and sees the nun's sister. I did actually want to have room to develop the other two detectives, develop the relationship between Daniel and Kate, make the novel more of a team...