Word: swansong
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...thing, “The Informers,” a loosely connected series of short stories, doesn’t lend itself nearly as easily to screen adaptation as “American Psycho” did. “Informers” is a four-part swansong, a requiem to that free-love-meets-free-spending materialistic innocence that represented life in early-80s L.A. as sung by a film producer, his estranged wife and mistress, a doorman and his depraved uncle, and a rock star and his addictions. The movie is bound together?...
This was an impossible book to write, and 9/10 of it is beautiful. Perhaps that one 1/10 was unavoidable, but the fact is that it is there, and it distracts from what is Rowling’s marvelous swansong. Harry Potter has been put to rest at last...
...perhaps fitting that Summers, who used his office as a global bully pulpit to promote stem cell research—and discovered the pulpit’s perils when he speak provocatively about women in science—delivered his swansong on the opposite bank of the Charles...
...among-boys, how about a woman-among-girls? The Cantabrigian Carnival completes its Tour of the Outrageous right back where it started—in Providence, RI on March 26 and 28. Barring setbacks, that’s where senior forward Angela Ruggiero will have her Harvard swansong, playing for the 2004 Women’s Hockey NCAA Title in the Frozen Four...
...civilians." He did not, however, specify what action his country would take. A 1998 census found 2.3 million Burkinabés in the Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang Zemin visited President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch for talks that were seen as the Chinese President's swansong before his retirement, expected later this year. The two leaders said they opposed nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, and Jiang said there'd been a frank exchange on Taiwan. Earlier, he called for greater Sino-American cooperation, but emph-asised Beijing's independence of Washington's aims, quoting Confucius...