| 单词 | last word |
| 例句 | “Incurable, of course. You poor, wonderful man. You will be happier dead. Have you any last words?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She particularly liked the sound of the last word, the way the “r” ’s rolled in her mouth, the explosion of “p” ’s. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His last words to me, before he hugged me and headed back to school, were, “Don’t burn the house down.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I found it on the last page, in the very last words—not poetry in stanzas, just Frank’s prose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the last words, Lillian glanced back and smiled at Mary Anne who scowled behind her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Why do you like last words so much?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Moss said, his voice cracking on the last word. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The last word was uttered in a roar so thunderous that Ranofer stopped in his tracks, wondering confusedly if it were some order he was supposed to understand and obey. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She never failed to remind Turner that he was to listen for her last words, and that the paper and pen were atop the organ. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It is these last words that showed Mama’s right and true heart. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The image freezes as last words roll and stop mid screen. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Meriwether Lewis’s last words were, “I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I wanted to wait for the right moment to speak, and I figured it might be good to go at the end so I could have the last word. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was the last word Bonneville said, hardly more than a whisper. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The last words were spoken to Polly and the Cabby who had now arrived. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z And by the time I reached the last word, relieved, I convinced myself that I had read The Republic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Beautiful last words, but I didn’t quite understand. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Well, you do that, sweetheart. Any last words?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then he shouted again, a very urgent shout: “Get away. I warn you. Get away from ——” The last word I could not understand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She emphasizes the last word—parents—as if it’s the worst thing in the world. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z "You know how you always want to know what were the last words I said to Mama?" Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “The only thing I’ll regret is that nobody will hear my last words. People are always remembered for their last words. They’re almost like a message from beyond the grave.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt my stomach drop at that last word. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “It is my... pleasure,” Octavian said, forcing out the last word, “to bestow upon you the Mural Crown for being first over the walls in siege warfare.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Frank Churchill’s little inclination to exclude himself increased so much, that his last words to Emma were, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She kept going until she said the last word, and then she sat down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Turtle paused in a pretense of letting the heirs mull over her last words, trying to figure out what to do next. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t forget anything,” Mom had told him just a few days ago—practically the last words she’d spoken to him before she vanished. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I don’t worry that those are the last words she says to me all summer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Nightingale’s hand zipped up, and he caught the thread of her last word. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z At the last word there was a peculiar grinding noise from above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These last words were more than he could bear, and bursting into the middle of the ring, he strode up to his master’s side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The last word has barely come out of her mouth when the fights go out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Harry hung back for a last word with Ron and Hermione. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His voice broke on the last word and he dropped down into the nearest chair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "Well, it always makes me think of the last words I said to Daddy." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The last word is spoken with quiet, complete disdain. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z "If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words," she'd heard him tell Robb and Jon once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But like I’ve said before, he’s the type who has to have the last word, and he did throw out a final farewell before I faded into the night. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I couldn’t get those last words out of my mouth. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I remember the last words we said to each other. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I said the last words fiercely, almost snarling them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She started to say “I think it might be a . . .” but then slipped on loose gravel, and her last word was lost as she scrambled and caught herself before she could fall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The last words of the prophecy came back to him again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The colour had flooded into his face, and the last words were shouted. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Welles spoke his last word and removed his headphones, a CBS staffer told him he had a call in the control booth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The sixty-inch machine laid easy claim to being the last word in cyclotron design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why they hate us so much,” said Gregory He thought of Shed’s burning eyes, his last words, “Overlander, we hunt you to the last rat.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And as Bilbo murmured the last words his head dropped on his chest and he slept soundly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I started the car and pulled out of the parking lot, but all her teamwork stuff aside, I still felt like I was getting badgered into something, and I wanted the last word. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She heard the buffalo boy’s laughter as he refused her money, saw the king’s generous smile as he willingly parted with his family’s treasure, and remembered Da-A-Fu’s last words to her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z After speaking her last word Miss Volker bowed her head in prayer. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The last words came bursting out of her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And suddenly I understand exactly what his last words meant. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But there was something so bleak about her last words: He’ll never let me go. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the last word I spoke for nearly a year. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She could hardly bring the last words out, and as she spoke tears were in her eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Harry gaped at the last word for several long moments. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I don’t get the last word with Ted, of course. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I can just catch Gale’s last words through the layer of fur. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z His voice rose on the last word, as he made his best attempt at a proper British accent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The last words she heard her husband speak echo in her mind today as clearly as when she heard them that night. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She realized suddenly that she’d spoken the last words out loud and everyone had heard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I make sure I say the last word extra stank. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We were sinking under the wisdom, accuracy, and relevance of Maureen’s last words. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was scary that her last words to Chess had been “Don’t forget anything.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that “Please guys, don’t” were terrible last words. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The sound of the last word, the way I draw out the vowel, makes me hear how much I wanted that. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Tally tried to remember the last words she’d said to David, and wished they”d been more comforting. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always blowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Bigger heard Max’s last words ring out in the court room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The last word—Why?—hung in the air, echoing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She better not say a word against Nan or it’d be the last words she said to me tonight. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The last words of this man who had sung to life were: “They’re going to shoot them! They’re going to shoot them!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The last words he said to her were:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was my mom who was always harping on her, but this sort of feels like maybe Lucy got the last word. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Later.—I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no doubt in question. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He read and reread the last words of the note and it was like drinking many cups of fresh, cool water: Yor frend Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he said the last word, he slammed the tire iron down on what was left of the right wing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Turner wrote out Mrs. Cobb’s last words and gave them to his father, who put them in his front coat pocket, still folded. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “He says that if he comes back you are never to make him wear overcoats or go to the Hairdressers again—that’s his last word!” said Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The boy was sprawled on a frozen lake, his eyes white and blind, his mouth open in a last word. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The last word hung in the warm truck air like a rough poke with a sharp finger. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "There was so much talking I couldn't hear the last word." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Cobb did not have to say her last words that afternoon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t care about the photos in the basement, and I was sick of riddles and mysteries and last words. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her last words were lost in the empty air of the gym; Miles had shot across the bottom of the bleachers and ripped her microphone’s power cord from its extension. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Which only a fool would offer as his last words.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Gathering his remaining strength, he looked at his hands and spoke his last words: “Useless, useless.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean . . . you remember me?” he asked, embarrassed at the squeak that escaped on the last word. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I began at the end, as I sometimes did with biographies I had no intention of reading all the way through, and found his last words without too much searching. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The last words Ragear ever heard on this earth were uttered in the adder’s sibilant hiss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Shut my eyes as I would, these last words of his succeeded in making the way, which had seemed blocked up, comparatively clear. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “You too,” I said, and those were the last words we ever said to each other. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you will refrain from echoing either the last clause or the last word of everything I say to you, I will be much obliged. Home. Yes, home.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said to Carl now, folding her arms in the kitchen doorway, where she knew she would have the last word. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She says the last word so quietly that I almost don’t hear it, and her tense, worried look returns. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She drew out the last word in a hiss. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z "Be there for each other," Coach added the last word, eye-lasering us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Before he had finished his last word, the square was filled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Forward, comrades!’ he whispered.‘Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.’Those were his very last words, comrades.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Otherwise the demons would write down the last word they heard, so that I would be called Mister Shadow instead of Mister Lee. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The last word Nurse ever said was, “No.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The last words he ever heard were, “A Lannister always pays his debts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The king gave a wry smile at those last words, a smile the father did not understand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I try to remember the last words I said to him, but I can’t. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She broke into a whimper on the last word. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Them's the last words I ever spoke on his little brown ears. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Those were the last words she ever spoke to me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Mr. McNamara'd settled for a draw in return for the last word. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Do you have any last words to say?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The last word came as a hiss and a snarl and the golden doors of the locket swung wide with a little click. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She wished her mom could see her right now because unhappy was the last word Ivy would use to describe herself. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She calls the message her “last words,” so she must have known she was about to die. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were the last words on the page. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He didn’t mean to falter on the last word. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He takes his hand away, lazily almost, lingeringly, this is not the last word as far as he’s concerned. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you have any last words, now is the time to speak them,” he said, expecting one last curse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought of the last words I’d heard her shout as I was hanging up: “I need you!” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The split second those last words flew out, I wanted to take them back, but I couldn’t. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The father’s last words arrive about a minute later. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘Dearest, I told you I would come back. Those were my last words to you. Don’t you remember?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Jay’s voice was strained tight with fear, and it cracked on the last word. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She whipped toward me, sprang from the chair, and dashed over to my bedside as if I was about to deliver my last words. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When he spoke this last word, he dropped his head to his chest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z TJ can barely get the last word out before Pop Pop is whacking him upside the head. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She caught my eyes, managed to choke out one last word: “Go!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She drew out the last word dramatically, and then turned to the others. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z On the day he left, his last words were, “When my son is of age, he will come back to claim his bride.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z But Jefferson had already died two hours before and his last words were, ‘Adams survives.’ Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He traced one finger over the last word, HOME, and he nodded. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z His last words, and what words they were. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If it is not the last word on the subject, then I really, really, really do not wish to hear the last word. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Her last word was a lash, but Theon dared not answer back in kind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they were going to die she wanted those to be her last words. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When she said that last word, my throat knotted so light, it felt as though I’d swallowed a horseshoe. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Kaira, under a single spotlight, seemed especially alone and vulnerable as she half sang, half whispered the very last words. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z His voice was rough, and dropped almost to nothing on the last word. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Screaming or praying or crying out those last words. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It’s the last word that really brings it home to him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what you’re doing here,” I managed to get out, but decided that those would be the last words I’d say. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Throughout this time the last words of the judge are repeated. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were his last words and he thought he meant them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At this last word, the Hall was filled with a silence so absolute that nobody seemed to be breathing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I think her actual last words were “I am glad to die for my country.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “You will always have the last word,” Hera said, “but no power to speak first.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is a rat in my soup” were the last words she uttered. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z And when I say my final words…well, probably not my final words, but the last words on these tapes…it’s going to be one tight, well-connected, emotional ball of words. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “I didn’t ask how long it was. I need to know how far ...” I said, stressing the last word. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The last words rang out through the thin January air. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I nodded, remembering the bird clawing at the boy’s heart, and the last word frozen on his dead lips. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Aru remembered the Sleeper’s last words: Know that I am gathering my own friends. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘I won’t say what I started to say. Instead we’ll have one last word about the South. The strangled South. The wasted South. The slavish South.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Harry heard the hat shout the last word to the whole hall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “We were so worried about the stupid code words, we didn’t think to look around for something to push—the last word, the last piece of the puzzle.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Those were the last words he spoke, in this life at any rate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z To me, it was the war that spawned a thousand good last words. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They may have been his last words, I thought. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Mama straightened a little as she said the last word, and she smiled down at Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She shook her head as she said the last word. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Those were the last words he ever said to her. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lips moved again, forming her last word to me, a whisper almost too faint to hear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She takes a sip of her tea while I type her last words. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My voice strangled on the last word as I put weight on my foot and a wave of pain swept through me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Yeah, everybody’s got a talent. I can memorize things. And you can . . . ? “Um, I know a lot of people’s last words.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Would it be possible for me to have a last word with the princess?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Hadn’t you rather have her marry a rich man?” asked Jo, as her mother’s voice faltered a little over the last words. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps,” said Deacon Hurd as he finished the final prayer, “you might say her last words once more, Reverend.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z My mother mutters the last words under her breath. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher’s last words were “Now comes the mystery.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Oh, spare me the drama. You always have to have the last word, don’t you?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t matter now anyway. I’ll have to come up with a whole new set of last words. Something easier to catch, I guess.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “She was passed on, son,” he said, shaking his head, and my last hope of last words faded. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He actually sings that last word instead of saying it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z For the first time, my grandfather’s last words began to make a strange kind of sense. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I start toward the door, and as my hand closes around the handle, she says, “Just leaving so that you can have the last word, that’s really mature!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Seeing as I had regularly petitioned my parents for an electric fence, the business with the guards strikes me as the last word in quiet sophistication. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He bellowed the last word and, before Harry could say another word, slammed the dungeon door behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bertha Nemur was not going to let me get the last word in, and if things went any further it would really get nasty. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They were very keen to say the last word here. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As she spoke these last words she turned abruptly and looked at Dustfinger, who had followed them into the library, soundless as a prowling cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But now the train was pulling in, hissing steam, so that was her last word. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: “We are all going.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Run,” Fayge said, catching the last word, and repeated it in a soft, uninflected voice. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I read her biography! Didn’t have her last words in it, though. I was a little bitter. All I remember is that she had a lot of sex. “I know. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It drives Alex nuts that Henry thinks he gets to have the last word, and without thinking, he reaches out and pulls Henry’s shoulder back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And that was the last word I spoke until the end of our call. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He squeezes his eyes tighter, repeats the last words, chants them fervently, asThouwiltasThouwiltasThouwilt, until they wrap around him and the floating feeling comes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The last words reverberated through the room with extra echo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those were the last words spoken between my mom and me before I took off. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The last words were spoken so low she thought he did not hear them, but he did, and they wounded him deeply, for he had denied himself many pleasures for Meg’s sake. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowan resolved that he would make up Kohl’s last words to share with his loved ones. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The last words came out with more force than I’d intended. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z And then Emma saw the last words on the screen: Please tell the kids this was the last thing I wanted to happen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I rest my tired head on her last words, letting them be my pillow. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “You going to write down her last words?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Good-bye, Wilbur,” she said as her last words floated into the audience and out of reach. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z His last words were, “You think this is bad? This ain’t bad.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had to come back. Our last words to each other were trash and we would’ve been some bad cliché, and I’m too iconic for such nonsense.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z These would be the last words anyone would hear him speak. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He tripped up a little on the last word, but it didn’t matter since I hadn’t understood anything that had come out of his mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In the next staff meeting, Janice gives us the official last word, come directly from John. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Another son might not have heard his mother’s last words as a prophecy but as drug-induced gibberish, forgotten soon after. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “No. I mean, well, yeah, but it was so...embarrassing” I half whisper the last word. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Cooter said, “And the last word, con-tempt, it looks just ’bout the same as contest, right? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z On this last word “ocean” the child in the middle quickly rushes around trying to find a partner and leaving one child “out” who is now the one in the middle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I” was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would walk around the neighborhood saying, “I I I I.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The last words were spoken carefully, as if they held special significance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You going to he about her last words?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z That seemed her last word for the night. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t sound comfortable saying the last word, as if he hadn’t quite grasped the slang of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z ‘This is my last word,’ he said in a low voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I wanted to have the last word, but I didn’t know what decorum was. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is the last word I shall ever write.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Angela thought the boy was going into a fit, but he was only repeating her last word: oats. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z My flesh crawled, remembering the ironic, almost humorous twist he’d put on the last words—oh, God, I thought, my God, how could I have listened to him? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But before I close it, I start a new document and get some last words out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z My last words to him were, “So, how are you with bears?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The last words cut like strokes of a lash. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He was one of those people who really liked to have the last word. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I didn’t think about the bruises,” he said, and his voice broke on that last word. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I did so that evening, and despite their misgivings, I persuaded them to permit Mr. de Klerk to have the last word. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he wrote the last word, and said, “For a... project.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The last words I’d written were the ones from the diner, back before the wolves and the angels. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He hammered out his last word on the table with his fist, upsetting his glass and spilling a dark pool of scutten across the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His last words were, “I pray you bear me witness that I met my fate like a brave man.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The last word to come from outside the walls was brought by men flying down the northward road ere the Gate was shut. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His last words were balm: they seemed to imply that it imported something to him whether I forgot him or not. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to send me into my last words?” she finally hollered. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z His last word, therefore, was spoken softly, without anger or fear, only with bewilderment and a measure of bravery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Supposedly, Archimedes’s last words had been: Don’t disturb my circles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I thought back to Simon Bolivar’s last words in Garcia Marquez’s novel—“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He went to jail for me, and now he walks away with a few last words. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Okay, finish the last word you’re writing on and come take a seat,” Mrs. Curtis says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Matt had those stories memorized right down to the last word. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were the last words Sandy said to her. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The last words were addressed to an immense biscuit-colored rabbit whose head had just popped up from somewhere beside the path. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “No. Those were his last words. Someone said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,’ and then he said, ‘That’s obvious,’ and then he got shot.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Those were famous last words if I had ever heard them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z June pulls away from me the instant she utters the last word. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Those were the last words my father said to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her last word was punctuated with an arching eyebrow. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He gagged on the last word, and I began to reach for him, only to stop short, afraid my touch would be excruciating. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I certainly wasn’t going to tell my parents about Grandpa Portman’s last words or the letter or the photo—they would’ve had me committed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For once in her life, Jill didn’t shoot back the last word, and Guzzo stalked off without looking back at either of us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As I stood, a voice behind me said: “So do you really memorize last words?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He kind of choked up the last word, seeing how it was tomorrow that he was going to be shoved out of his closet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The red bat echoed the last words Gregor had heard clearly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But my folks were more alarmed over his last words than over his dying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Take the last word, Mackey.Take it, take it, take it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” she says, and I don’t know if these are the last words she ever plans on speaking to me, but now I don’t think I would mind if they are. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Buckman,” he said, “perhaps you would like to retract those last words? They seem unnecessarily harsh.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “My mum. On her deathbed. Her very last words were about you.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Wealhtheow's last words had been: "Take care. She was the wife of Cain. She is ten times more terrible than Her son." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Min choked out the last words: “You are not my son.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I say the last word softly and look around as I do. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I repeated my mother’s last words as she’d walked out this same door so many years ago. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I said the words, pulled the coins apart, spoke the last word, and waited. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I have even remembered some electrifying famous last words which I have been saving up to finish with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Fear crawls up my throat, and I almost can’t say the last words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He never wrote what he truly felt, for he knew that his private journal was not private at all, and that Scythe Goddard read every last word. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z With these last words he squeezed Pippo’s neck even more firmly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Nobody would care to remember that, and you’d have wasted your one opportunity. You don’t get two chances to say your last words, you know.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The last words he says with a fancy girl’s voice as he stretches his neck forward and blinks fast, then laughs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Her last words to me were about how she hadn’t fallen in love yet.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She remembered his wife’s words, the last words she had ever said to him, and Sefia repeated them one after another. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I should feel something, hearing her last words to me, shouldn’t I? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I’m not letting her get the last word. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “It is good to die on a hill of the llano, beneath the juniper—” were his last words. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the last word leaves my mouth, he kisses me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He squeezed his eyes, trying to force the last words to mind, but they wouldn’t come. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Takumi knew a lot about hip- hop; I knew a lot about last words and video games. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “I want to have a last word with my son. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z ‘Do be careful of that ring, Frodo! In fact, it is partly about that that I have come to say a last word.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "He was up there! Dog, cut through them and bring—" A tumult of sound drowned his last words, a rolling thunder of rage and fear and hatred that engulfed them from all sides. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Some of her last words are carved on the statue’s plinth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But the last word had barely come out of his mouth when he was slammed to the ground by a man and a woman. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She’d barely said the last word when the Berg burst into life and launched off the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And I feel myself sweating, my heart beating in anger, as I remember their last words to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Who knew if Mrs. Cobb herself could be there, still trying somehow to get her last words right? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As I left the room, I heard her last words to Mandy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The cool voice caught slightly on the last word, as if it were difficult to say. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Henry shouted the last words loud enough for the twins to hear. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But the house had certainly been built by a millionaire and was said to be absolutely the last word in luxury. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Cal’s last words had been repeating themselves over and over in her head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He laid his hand on my head as he uttered the last words. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Those are the last words I said to any of them. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She thought she had the last word on the matter and that it was over until they returned home, where, no doubt Scythe Faraday would inflict some annoying but fair punishment that fit the crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The way the man drew out the last word told Jon that he had been considering saying something else. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lincoln replied to the last words he would ever hear his wife speak, “She won’t think anything about it.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The series does not purport to be all-inclusive or the last word on class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The next question came as soon as I finished my last words. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes after the last word and looked up at Mother Water Monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Toby threw the shifter into park and jumped out, singing the last words of the song loudly into the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z "Robb was sixteen a few days past . . . a man grown, and a king. He's won every battle he's fought. The last word we had from him, he had taken the Crag from the Westerlings." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I’m not about to say my last words this afternoon, Turner Buckminster.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I’d actually figured out what I wanted my last words to my loved ones to be. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Cole Matthews would still have the last word. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I did, too, or I wouldn’t have said my last words. And they were such nice last words ” “They were,” said Lizzie. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I said, “That’s right, ma’am, Five Forty-one is just waiting for the executioner to get home. Would you like to stick around and write down his last words?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “He seemed to regret his last words even as they were coming out, for his voice faded quickly He turned away. ‘“The whole point? Mother asked. ‘What do you mean by that?’ Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He opens the car door for me as I let his last words settle in my bones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Is it really true what you said about Adams and Jefferson having almost the same last words at almost the same time?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At the end of the last word, I fell forward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sam, remembering the overheard debate, found it hard to believe that the long submerged Sméagol had come out on top: that voice at any rate had not had the last word in the debate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I put in all the words and one by one they appeared on the screen; then something beeped and they’d disappear. But it won’t let me type in the last word. Nothing’s happening!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Her last words ripped out of her in a wail, plaintive and piercing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I wanted to act like I didn’t care about the last words, but I did. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was fine with just me and last words and school friends, and you can’t just make me different and then die.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Finn asked, trying so, so hard to keep his voice from wavering on the last word. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When he’d opened them, the map had had its last word. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The last words were I keep hoping I’ll hear you chuck rocks at my window and ask me to go somewhere with you. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if this would be the moment he would hear Mrs. Cobb’s last words. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Not here. Not like this. Let young Buckminster write down her last words. Then let them be read aloud when we come to pay our final respects.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “That’s not the right answer,” she calls, singing the last word. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last word, he shoved her out from behind the drum. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “What your grandfather’s last words meant isn’t my conclusion to draw,” he said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Since nobody seems to have done any serious research in anatomy for the next twelve or thirteen centuries, Galen’s work was regarded as the last word in human anatomy until well into the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “This is just the kind of day when my last words might come in handy. There’s that damp chill in the air that gets down into your lungs.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “They are. But if you string together the first or last word of each game title…” He tapped the glass in front of the first box on the bottom shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I am the last word of your lives well lived. Give thanks. And thus farewell.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Clearly there’s no stopping her until she’s read every last word. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about what the bird said: My dearest friend, these are the last words of Liriope. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His last words—chance to—bounced around the clearing before ricocheting off into the trees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She always has to have the last word, so I wait for the inevitable reply: so no news then? hope u didn't get u hopes up. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z That was when I learned his last words, said to the pilot of the plane he’d been flying in formation with: “You’re on your own.” Lois Lowry on ‘The Giver’ and what she regrets in her new book, ‘Looking Back’ 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Then she went on to thunder about Mugler and Paris, as if it were the last word in cool, but of course the more she thundered the more empty the claim was. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Balmain, Rick Owens, Mugler, Rochas, Van Noten: Paris Fashion Review 2011-09-29T23:21:01Z And his actual last word is his music.” Gail Zappa, widow of Frank Zappa and protector of his iconoclastic rock legacy, dies at 70 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z His last words before the hidden squad tore into his heart were "Dominus vobiscum", as strange in Utah as in the Joannine Church. From the Observer archive, 11 November 1979: Through Gary Gilmore's eyes 2012-11-11T00:10:00Z Indeed, Adelaide was returning from an emergency house call out at Sir Gregory’s ancestral pile the night she made that detour to that darkened church, just in time to hear poor Sir Aidan’s last words. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z So she gives Laurette, who is retiring, the last word in the form of an address to her students. Review: Theater Professors Are Under the Gun in ‘Preparedness’ 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z I leave the last word to The Review Show's tutelary spirit, Tom Paulin. The Review Show's move to BBC4 isn't a death sentence 2013-03-15T16:00:02Z The two-hour "Tina" is likely to be the diva's last word and designed as a reverent look at a performer who refuses to allow her suffering to define her outrageous success. HBO's celebratory Tina Turner doc gives her the final word on the woman behind the iconic name 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Those were her last words to us on Tuesday, February 18, 2020. After years of long-distance dating, we bought a house together. Then COVID hit home 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z “Lost” is another three-minute slice of unexpected introspection, woozy and vulnerable all at once – “when I’m ugly, hug me” – that gives the last word to his better half. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z But the real draw here has always been the sugary last word: chocolate desserts. A Taste of Williamsburg 2010-05-24T18:45:00Z This isn't a new thought, but Anderson renders it affectingly personal, not least when she muses on the death of her mother last year, and recalls how "her last words were scattered". Delusion 2010-04-15T21:40:00Z He searched for suicide notes and sites on famous last words and asked Google, “How many times does a human heart beat in a life?” My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z The rule in most television dramas is that the person with the moral high ground gets the last word. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 8: ‘What Have I Done?’ 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z I'll give him the last word, from that album's "Imaginary Man," in which he looked at himself and tried to sum things up. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In 1931, this Broadway revue was considered the last word in sophistication. The Band Wagon ? review 2011-03-31T17:05:55Z While Vietnam remains a scab at which America is compelled to pick, Burns’s panorama feels like the last word. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z There was a time when "nerdy" was the last word a starlet would want associated with her name. Hot actresses: "We're nerds just like you" 2011-05-03T15:04:00Z His bourgeois kind would have the last word, anyway: A century later, it would take over the country. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z “Folk Couture” is certainly not the last word on fashion and folk art, and its “Project Runway” formula might not be right for every museum. Art Review: In ‘Folk Couture,’ Fashion Designers Buck Constraints 2014-02-27T23:02:24Z But the last word belonged to Ms. Choi, who buttoned up the movement with three plucked notes as discreet as they were authoritative. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z His last words: “These violent delights have violent ends.” “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Having the last word before jurors hear instructions and start deliberating Tuesday, prosecutors must also answer some of the defense’s knocks on their case. Prosecutors get final word at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z “Famous last words,” she added, before joining the actor Fisher Stevens on the dance floor, as the D.J.’s tossed inflatable sharks into the crowd. Scene City: Nothing Scary About These Sharks 2011-07-06T19:28:09Z His last words: “That was a great game of golf, fellas.” Bing Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Crosby 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The novel alternates between the 21st- and 19th-century stories, using the last words of one chapter as the title of the next one. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He died in Germany at 44; with his last words he reportedly requested Champagne. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Our film is in no way the last word on back up singing. The secret lives of backing singers 2014-02-25T00:47:09Z The person being sentenced usually has the last word. Will Bill Cosby’s Trip From America’s Dad to Sex Offender End in Prison? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Okay, one spoiler: The last word of the book is “laugh.” Review | ‘Very Nice’ is a good book to pack for your vacation. But maybe it’s more than that. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z His last words before the rampage weren’t about the desire to experience sexual intimacy with another, equally human person. Violent young men, sex and the conversation we should be having now 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The ghosts this playwright wants you to sense are hovering all around the theater, reminding us of a parasitic human penchant for getting the last word — and profiting from it. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z And of course Elaine gets the last word, which surely she would appreciate. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But sometimes it’s the hulk who likes to smash things who gets the last word. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: Hulk Smash! 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The other storyline this week, of course, involved Stan shooting the walk-in, a would-be traitor and Vietnam vet whose last words are “Ronald Reagan doesn’t care.” ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s All About Work/Life Balance 2014-03-13T03:00:03Z The E. J. Strickland Project and Olatuja Project, which appeared one after the other at 92Y Tribeca on Wednesday night, have a lot more in common than the last word in their names. Music Review: E. J. Strickland Project and Olatuja Project at 92Y Tribeca 2012-01-19T23:32:37Z Trust Mr. Spacey to have the last word, though. Theater Review: Kevin Spacey?s ?Richard III,? Staged by Sam Mendes - Review 2012-01-19T03:01:14Z If there’s modulating to be done, it’s in Cody Nickell’s turn as the intellectual Paul, who always gets the last word. Review | The moralizing 1946 comedy ‘Born Yesterday’ is not dead yet 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The crowd cheered madly whenever Petty, 63, veered even slightly from the tried-and-true course, as when he held the last word of the chorus of “I Won’t Back Down” a beat longer than normal. Tom Petty at top of his game at Gorge | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The novel closes with Dulcie making her way into church on Easter Sunday: the last word on the last page is "Resurrection". Last Friends by Jane Gardam – review 2013-06-08T08:02:01Z "I remember everything," Mary says, her voice growing strained and harsh on that last word. The Testament of Mary 2013-04-23T16:16:00Z I wrestled with him, shooting him 52 times before he uttered his last words. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z Link to this video Not everyone agrees, not least our own Andrew Clements, for whom the new production was - well, not exactly the last word in how to stage a Janácek opera! The Cunning Little Vixen - walk on the wild side 2012-06-08T11:48:00Z That last word shocks you every time — and you can hear in it more than a hint of his genetic inheritance from Pedro the Cruel. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z His last word in “Playing With Fire” is surprising: “The peace movement won.” The Presidential Election That America Lost 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It is as if her last words are still hanging in the air, and we are straining to pick them out from the white noise of history. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z In Harp's opinion, it was "so obvious" that they should pick his last words "because there's literally nothing more special than the last words that he left us." Sisters get tattoos of dad's emotional final note: 'It has been such a good life' 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z His last words still bring me — and many others — to tears: “I am just going outside and may be some time.” Review | For a snowy day, a winter classic 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Salonen ended the program note to "Karawane" by giving Hugo Ball, who once described Zurich as a bird cage surrounded by devouring lions, the last word. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z So when you talk about this show, and you will, you will no doubt be pronouncing the last word of its title à la Gil and George. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He gave the last word to a white male Republican, who repeated a point that has come into vogue since Trump’s early surges in popularity. Bill Maher’s Weird, Effortful Apology for Saying the N-Word 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z That last word names the body part that is Lyla’s stock in trade. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z There’s no perceptible change in her physical being, no last word or gasp, no discernible evidence of the soul leaving the body. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “It was his last words to me, but he was a little bit joking.” How Jean-Georges Vongerichten Went From ‘No Good’ Kid to 4-Star Chef 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The lyrics of “The Bridge” offer the last words of a pregnant woman about to jump to her death, on the spot she first kissed the lover who deserted her. Dolly Parton, American icon: Why everything's coming up Dolly now 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z As a critic, though, I reach my limit with the fall of the curtain, the last word of my review. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z I suspect those works are not here so as to leave the last word to “Jeanne,” the Getty’s prize, who also appears on the catalog’s cover and on posters all over Chicago. Manet’s Last Years: A Radical Embrace of Beauty 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Accessibility is the first and last word on the lips of museum directors. Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Garner's last words have become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement staging rallies and marches across the country. Eric Garner's family marks 2 years since his death with song 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z His last words are a defiant pledge to retain his humanity, but it’s an open question whether we are meant to see the survival of the human race as unalloyed triumph. Theater Review: Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-10-06T00:13:55Z “There’s a responsibility to get your etiquette antenna out. Don’t dive in too deep too quickly. And your willingness to cede the last word is often the quickest exit.” The weather used to be good for small talk. Now it’s dead serious. 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z This is a terrific and moving show, but it is not the last word on Lowry. LS Lowry at Tate Britain: glimpses of a world beyond 2013-06-24T17:26:28Z Your daughter is 15, she doesn’t get the last word on what you tell other people. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your 15-year-old is pregnant. Show her what good parenting looks like. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z She said her last words, made her final prayer, and waited, kneeling upright. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z I imagine his real last words were probably, I’m so uncomfortable . . . water, hot, where? The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z Harvey Weinstein has frequently occupied the basement of this column and perhaps that is because he tends to have the last word – and laugh – on many matters box office. The Hobbit storms US box office and Guardians rise to the challenge 2012-12-17T17:01:26Z “Don’t you remember,” she asks — stretching that last word out over a few seconds and many more syllables — “the reason you loved me before” — on those last two words, more seconds, more syllables. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z But what’s been pretty incredible to watch, over the past two years, is how Allen seems to have had the last word. This is how the Woody Allens of the world get the last word 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Garner’s recorded last words, “I can’t breathe,” and variations on them, circulate like a mantra. Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The wretched man's last words before he was hanged were: "To kill is the final possession." The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z When that scene ends, Carl Winslow's gotten almost everything he wanted: He's gotten in the last word, shamed the bad guy and maybe even influenced the cop's young partner. A Black Cop on the Silver Screen 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Still, Cronenberg got the last word when asked if a scene in which a film trophy is wielded as a weapon by one character serves as a metaphor for how award season brutalizes actors. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Were Kate given the last word, it would be quite possible to read “Seminar” as a sharp critique of gender inequality. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z Though Salome has the lion's share of singing, it's her stepfather, Herod, who gets the last word - ordering his soldiers to kill her after she has kissed the bloody lips of the beheaded prophet. Nina Stemme triumphs in `Salome' at Carnegie 2012-05-25T14:04:09Z Where do you think parents get the last word in general? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A mother might need to discipline herself to pick her battles 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “I don’t know how I got heeeerrrre/ I knew it wouldn’t be eeeeasyyyy,” he sang, hitting the last word of each line with more power and tang. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z “I will have the last word, you know I will.” Want the Scoop on Team Trump? Pay Attention to Cindy Adams 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Her mother became irrevocably bitter, to the point where her virtual last words before she died in 2007 were, “Don’t let Jon in here.” Books of The Times: Andrew Morton?s Biography of Angelina Jolie 2010-07-25T21:53:00Z For the last word, “matters,” Ms. Payne started in the “M” with the image of a Black woman as an ancestral figure and nurturer. The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Art That Contain Multitudes 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Never allow despair to have the last word. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z In any case this movie, its title notwithstanding, is unlikely to be the filmmaker’s last word. ‘Goodbye to Language,’ the Latest From Jean-Luc Godard 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z I always make sure I have the last word. Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known as James Bond has no downside’ 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Hellman sued for libel but died in 1984 with the suit unresolved, leaving scandal as the lingering last word on her legacy. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Even when Don gets mean, which he seems to do all the time now, Peggy is starting to have the last word. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z McManus gets something like the last word in “Fiasco,” saying that the lesson of Iran-contra lies in the immense difficulty of putting limits on a modern president. Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Then even something brooding like, “the rest is silence” — Hamlet’s last words — becomes a discovery. The Carpetbagger: Christopher Plummer Gets Oscar Buzz 2011-12-21T22:58:47Z Brown, along with the rest of his captured men, was indeed hanged, although it’s unclear what his last words were. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But the show’s final scene is a haunting beauty, a perfect balance of the everyday and the eternal, in which the silence of the desert is once again allowed the last word. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s an altogether new form of tribute: Having one’s last word while being able to hear the things everyone will say when you’re really gone. Review | John McCain reports for duty in his own heroically touching HBO tribute 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “Thanksgiving: How To Cook It Well” is the last word on the subject. Alton Brown is wrong, listen to The New York Times’ Sam Sifton & stop brining your Thanksgiving... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z She can lower her sunglasses and make it look like the last word in predatory desire. Double Indemnity: No 6 2010-10-17T10:50:00Z In retelling the story, he panted to show how labored her breathing was and quoted her last words to him — which were about the afterlife: “‘ There is one. Jacques d’Amboise, a Ballet Star Who Believed in Dance for All 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z His last words — ‘I was only an obedient servant of my master’ — anticipate the position adopted by innumerable Nazi criminals, big and small, in the postwar trials.” Movie Review | 'Harlan': Haunted by What Dad Did in the War 2010-03-02T23:38:00Z Note that otherwise bland title’s distinctly ominous last word: In the novel Holmes and Watson must discover the perpetrator of an infamous anti-Semitic screed, the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Review | Sherlock Holmes can never die. New books about the great sleuth are making sure of it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The cover featured a photo of a car crash; the back page an image of James Joyce’s death mask hovering above the author’s supposed last words: “Does nobody understand?” Jesse Pearson, an Editor in His Third Act 2013-02-01T22:54:46Z It is the last word in lines one, three, and five, and so sets up a kind of soft dactylic chime which is audible throughout the poem. Poem of the week: A Lament for Our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham 2011-02-23T10:44:17Z Reportedly some of his last words were: "I have had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record", after his final spree. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z The evening’s last word is given to this adorable creature. | 'The Battle of Stalingrad': At Lincoln Center, Souls Suspended in a Siege 2010-07-21T21:17:00Z Rushdie was then accused of "self-canonisation" by Le Carré, but the Satanic Verses author had the last word. Salman Rushdie and John le Carré end fatwa face-off 2012-11-12T12:56:57Z In the epilogue to his “Confessions,” he quotes her last words: “The world comes back.” The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Among national pavilions, each organized independently, Spain, Russia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Britain and a few others have generated some buzz, but the United States deserves the last word. Critic’s Notebook: 13th Venice Architecture Biennale: the Usual Hagiography 2012-09-11T13:57:00Z Christopher has the last word: “I hate talking about fun . . . and I hate the very idea of fun. Talking about fun, and the idea of fun, are no fun at all.” Review | ‘Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe’ author Evan James is a writer to watch 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Selldorf said of the rounds of board deliberations: “It is a bit subjective. The last word hasn’t been spoken.” What Would Donald Judd Do? 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Maron, always so desperate to get the first and last word in, began to listen. How an angry comic who had a coke habit became the Barbara Walters of podcasts 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z His last words – "Such is life" – are echoed by the Cody family. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z “And of course Elaine gets the last word, which surely she would appreciate.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The first and last words in “Death of a Salesman” belong not to Willy – perhaps obviously – or even his son Biff, whose conflict with his father drives the drama to its fatal conclusion. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z And does anyone, anywhere still see Hollywood as the last word in glamour? Hollywood Me: like Changing Rooms from La La Land 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z We, like his children, don’t know what he felt or if he heard their last words. Material Event: Unpacking That Pivotal ‘Succession’ Episode 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Gibson pauses before the last word to let a slow fricative sound emanate from his lips — fff — like air escaping from a punctured tire, or a man suppressing a naughty word. Mel Gibson proves a tad touchy on his ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ comeback tour 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Oprah's last words before exiting stage left were, "to God be the glory." Oprah's warm, funny, self-aggrandizing goodbye 2011-05-25T23:07:00Z “And along with this is that we are not nature’s last word,” he explained. Bill Nye: “Despite our best efforts we’re all going to die, and I think that makes all of us a little nutty” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Looking up the last words she'd sent me, I saw how our need to escape had hooked us. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The actor’s descriptions of talking to the portrait and feeling the presence of the “Charlie’s Angels” actress were among the last words that jurors focused on, asking to hear his testimony again Thursday morning. Jury: Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett belongs to Ryan O’Neal 2013-12-20T02:28:49Z These are said to be the last words Joseph Mallord William Turner spoke from his London deathbed as the light streamed through his window. Turner Contemporary's boardwalk empire 2011-04-06T20:30:00Z "I get the last word of this segment," Romney cut in. Tough reviews for Jim Lehrer as debate moderator 2012-10-04T06:46:04Z That same year, Fortune magazine wrote that “she particularly dislikes that the last word about her painting is ‘optimism,’” and quoted her saying that what she actually felt was “a sort of violence.” Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The hundreds of supporters listened to every last word. Beto O’Rourke gets more attention than any other 2018 candidate. Will it translate to votes? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The recording released Friday is unlikely to be RadarOnline's last word on Gibson. Website posts recording of racist Gibson rant 2010-07-09T23:16:00Z These are the last words Clive will ever say to Maurice, who has already slipped away from him unseen into the night. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z Pat Nixon, however, displays a deep and touching dignity; Zhou Enlai, who has the last word, emerges as a philosopher king. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z And in that, she probably does have the last word. 'Great Britain' taps phone-hacking laughs, but not for all 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Famous last words, of course, and both of them know it. "Love and Other Drugs": Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get naked 2010-11-23T20:37:00Z She offers a last word on the importance of deviled eggs in Southern society. How To Make Deviled Eggs 2011-03-21T16:20:09.123Z The last words we hear from him are: "No one on earth will live to know I was right." Back to the Hugos: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 2011-01-06T15:34:14Z Batman’s last words before his attack by the Boy Wonder at a Gotham City Council meeting. Style Invitational Week 1316: Lies, damn lies, with statistics — a fake-trivia contest 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Best’s Beatrice is always tasting other people’s food and smoothing out their clothes, while Mr. Edwards’s Benedick is one of those glib know-it-alls who just has to have the last word. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z But before he pulls the trigger, Conway insists on hearing his brother’s last words. Yo, Ray Boy: Crime Novels That Speak in Local Voices 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z He wanted these to be his last words. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z His last words were, reportedly, “I’m going…into the future.” Fan Granted Dying Wish for Star Trek Into Darkness Sneak Peek 2013-01-07T17:02:23Z Each of the four Seasons narrates a section of the film, and Frankie gets the last word. Jersey Boys Movie Review: Music is Sharp, Drama is Flat 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I contemplated his use of that last word for a moment in this context. Fiction: You Live Here Now 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z How fitting is it that Jin and Sun's last words to each other last week matched this endlessly repeating loop so perfectly? Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z Grace gets the last word, and if Smith’s seasonal novels have a motto, it is spoken here: “The level of attention I’m talking about is necessary for everything.” Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The last word should go to Tom: they are the last words of that essay. Tom Lubbock obituary 2011-01-10T18:34:36Z The last words that Lee — Alexander — McQueen said to me, in that slightly belligerent way of his, were these: “But bones are beautiful!” Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z Evil to the very end, his last words to Titus are: "You were lucky". Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z Mr. Reed’s last words, Ms. Anderson said, were “Take me out into the light!” Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed’s Complex Spirit Is Invoked at a Reunion of His Inner Circle 2013-12-17T22:39:52Z For years, I puzzled over my grandfather’s last words to my grandmother. Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Cried Without Knowing Why’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Following his death last week, a statement was released purporting to be Guru's last words on his personal and professional life. DJ Premier breaks silence over Gang Starr partner Guru 2010-04-27T13:11:00Z Editors such as Doubleday's Gerald Howard, who worked with Vidal over the past decade, learned to permit him the last word. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z But the fashion world certainly believes that this book will not be her last word, and looks forward to the next chapter. Carine Roitfeld Ends Paris Season with a Vampire Party 2011-10-06T17:19:17Z The last words are “and as they pulled away / I knew that Tony did a little dance.” The Making of a Quiet Children’s Classic 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z “Try to understand the last word of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces; there will be God in it,” he wrote. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z He knows instantly he must marry the girl, who has been true to her mother’s last words: she is courageous and kind. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Only her killer knew the irony of her last words. Betrayal by Gregg Olsen – review 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z Clausing, on the other hand, chose to tattoo her father’s last words in his exact handwriting. Sisters get tattoos of dad's emotional final note: 'It has been such a good life' 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Considering all the connective tissue, “The Letters of Cole Porter” amounts to the last word, a work as disjointed and delightful as any of Porter’s unforgettable songs. Review | ‘The Letters of Cole Porter’ amount to the last word on a madcap existence 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He’s a kindly, virginal dweeb, and the only thing he demonstrates any interest in, other than Alaska, is memorizing famous people’s last words. Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “We might be the last hand holding, the last smile, the last word they hear, the last voice they hear. So, yeah, we step in gladly.” Nurses’ musical voices give comfort in midst of pandemic 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Here an underling has the last word, and the cosmic upper hand. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z I even hear myself telling them that "it goes by too fast," biting my tongue on the last word. Motherlode Blog: With Grown Children, What Am I Besides 'Mom'? 2012-06-24T22:00:39Z So when he landed on his last word, so affectionately pronounced, I knew what he meant. The Sweet Solidarity of Barack Obama and Larry Wilmore 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But this may be late-game spin—the person who lived the longest getting the last word. Robbie Robertson Offers His Story of the Band 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The last words we hear from her: “Don’t let me forget.” Homeland Watch: Playing It Close to the Vest 2011-12-19T13:28:04Z This film is Mr. Knight’s chance to get in a last word or two. Review: ‘It’s Me, Hilary’ Documentary Spotlights Eloise’s Illustrator 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z For his part, Mr. West, forever needling his rivals and eager to get the last word, expressed only gratitude. Kanye West’s Latest Provocation: Lying Naked Next to Taylor Swift in ‘Famous’ Video 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z "Everyone pretends that God told them his last words," he said in this rare interview. Why Adonis should win the Nobel 2010-10-06T14:00:00Z They’ve been calling it three things: “Throw Me a Rope,” which are the chorus’s first words; “That’s the Way It Will Be,” its last words; and — of course — “The Unison Song.” Music Review: Dave Rawlings Machine, With Gillian Welch 2010-06-03T22:14:00Z But for all this production’s exhaustingly antic physicality it’s the words that, well, have the last word. | 'Love?s Labor?s Lost': ?Love?s Labor?s Lost? at Public Theater - Review 2011-11-01T02:01:01Z You admired Sister J's certainty, but if that was her last word on mortal frailty, I thought, you wouldn't want her in charge of the gas and air. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z A professional historian, he continued, “would publish this in a scholarly journal and make it very clear how it makes a difference, instead of using it to say, ‘I am the last word.’ ” Henry Wiencek’s ‘Master of the Mountain’ Irks Historians 2012-11-26T22:31:39Z Feels like the need for a last word/correction/dig more than anything else. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How much time does a boyfriend need to get over his divorce? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The desk clerk’s last words upon checkout, handing me a complimentary cup of tea, were, “Enjoy, eh?” An Ottawa Hotel Is an Ode to Canada 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Singing Paul Simon’s “Hearts and Bones,” a song about a traveling couple considering their uncertain future together, Ms. Molaskey was given the last word about the collision of two very different people. Music Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Caf? Carlyle 2011-11-06T22:50:23Z After hearing the last words of a violated girl, Kane quietly declares, “Men shall die for this.” Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Within religious communities it will be God, rather than Lady Justice, who has the last word, and some versions of the Almighty are not known for their impartiality. TV highlights 08/04/2013 2013-04-08T06:00:13Z JW The Biology of Dads It may sound like the last word in New Dad wimpiness, but apparently there really is such a condition as sympathetic pregnancy. The Biology of Dads 2010-06-22T07:00:00Z Scrawling the verses on postcards, he’d write a rhyme about an animal, leaving the last word — the name of the species — blank. Spare Times for Children for March 21-27 2014-03-21T02:54:37Z He does not clamor for the last word in old disputes. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The episode is framed by scenes of a protest march and concludes with a powerful recitation of Floyd’s last words. ‘S.W.A.T.’ dives into Black, police conflict in season debut 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Oliver didn’t have to do much to keep Mr. Iannucci talking, but he did get the last word. The TV Watch: John Oliver Steps in as ‘Daily Show’ Replacement 2013-06-12T20:45:03Z Around his neck hangs a gigantic, diamond-encrusted crucifix, but his last words before we part are a baroque rant against churches. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z Critics think they have the last word, but sometimes art keeps talking. Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis at the Jewish Museum 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Only when Shiv spills her frenzied last words into his cold ear do we finally see his face. Material Event: Unpacking That Pivotal ‘Succession’ Episode 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “As humans, we get so comfortable knowing,” he said, emphasizing that last word in his volume and timing, “that we forget how uncertain life is.” Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Nobody, however, assumed this would be Cameron's last word on the subject. After Leveson: the struggle to preserve cherished press freedoms won 300 years ago 2013-02-26T19:49:35Z Stefanovic, 37, has defended his dissertation and told a Serbian magazine last week he had said his last word on the matter. The minister, his mentor and the fight against a suspect system in Serbia 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Reportedly, Reynolds’s last words were, “I want to be with Carrie.” Debbie Reynolds was a trouper all the way to the end 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Godard, 79, was scheduled to appear at a press conference after the screening, but made good on these last words by not showing up. Film: Jean-Luc Godard?s Film, but Not Himself, at Cannes 2010-05-17T22:05:00Z Yet the cycle as a whole was not the last word in subtlety or structural command, let alone philosophical vision. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z For a long time Mr. Jacobs held his show early in New York Fashion Week, until he decided he should have the last word. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z They should also bring back Nick Fury to at least finish his last words from “Infinity War.” Who should live? Who should not? ‘Avengers: Endgame’ hot takes and predictions from The Seattle Times’ Marvel geeks 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z She settles for a simple, repeated refrain of “it’s euphoric,” giving that last word a prismatic luminosity. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Then she closes with the assertion, “Because I’ll always/I’ll always win,” hitting that last word with ferocity and clarity and pride. New Releases by Rae Sremmurd, Becky G, Cakes Da Killa 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Bold, impatient, certain to get their own way, but somehow lacking the last degree of patient application – that last word is just dashed off as if the sentence couldn't be over soon enough. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z So on this Thanksgiving weekend, I thought I would let Luke and Ruff the last word on gratitude. The Daily Spike: What are you grateful for? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “I look forward to those studies giving us the last word on vitamin D.” Vitamin D supplements don't help bone health, major study concludes 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Shifts and the Shocks” is not the last word on the global economy. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Who gets the last word in an older child’s priorities is a legitimate point to debate. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A mother might need to discipline herself to pick her battles 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z He lets out a disappointed sigh, tries to keep a straight face, takes a deep breath and says, “I respect that,” but his voice rises on the last word like a question. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Fireworks in the Fantasy Suites 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z But given that shift in focus — and all the carnage of the final “Breaking Bad” season — it was reasonable to think that the finale was the last word otherwise. ‘El Camino’: What to Remember 6 Years After ‘Breaking Bad’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z I still hadn’t found those last words yet, for him, or for me. Motherlode Blog: Saying Goodbye to a New College Student 2011-08-22T19:53:04Z Then, with his last words before being placed on a ventilator, Mr. Bledsoe agreed to get vaccinated once he recuperated, according to his father. They Died From Covid. Then the Online Attacks Started. 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Let Auden have the last word, from the last lines of his poem: But now he cried in jubilation and surrender, “The Godhead is broken, we are the pieces.” Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z It might be tempting to call this recording Harnoncourt’s “last word” on Beethoven. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Let’s give her the last word, from an essay she wrote after refusing the National Medal for the Arts in 1997: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The personal heartbreak of “Summer Soft” escalated in “Ordinary Pain,” with sassy female vocalists getting the last word. Stevie Wonder right at home in United Center concert 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z In this book’s pitiless world those are last words, and nothing more need be said. Books of The Times: Hired Killer, Forced Out of Retirement, Says Hello Again to an Old Adversary 2011-05-04T22:28:57Z She said the last words she read about the hearing were "the courts were filled with the strange, anguished cries of the hearing-impaired people." South Korea writer hopes hit film brings legal changes 2011-10-19T06:01:50Z No one in my immediate family could be there to hear his last words or even attend the funeral. The Art and Ritual of Rangoli 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z David Holbrooke, the diplomat’s son, can’t help but chuckle a bit when he recalls hearing about that little quip, among the last words his father ever spoke. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z We are proud to be championing Schubert at Wigmore Hall, but there is no such word as definitive, no such thing as a last word. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z When David Tennant made way for Matt Smith in the role, the last words he cried out echoed the feelings of millions of fans: "I don't want to go!" The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z They were both fervently anti-Clinton Republicans and her last words to my girlfriend were "get married". Jane Russell obituary 2011-03-01T13:00:28Z His last words are “What a beautiful country.” How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Nestled into the last word of each line is Brooks’s canonical poem: “We real cool. We/ Left school. …” Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Annoyance is a valid and understandable response to someone grabbing the last word all.the.time — and not about her own experience, but yours. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: I hate to bring it up, Pollyanna, but you’re bringing me down 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Warn the gardeners, though, they vie for the last word at their peril. Talk nicely with parents about kids trampling traffic island 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z I will never know whether the last words I said to him were the last words he heard me say. My father, the smoker: John Jeremiah Sullivan book extract 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z Warn the gardeners, though, that they vie for the last word at their peril. Carolyn Hax: Fight over neighborhood green space But the last word on botanical beauty was whisper quiet. Fashion Review: How Well Their Garden Grows 2013-01-23T18:00:31Z His backup was two female singers, who cooed harmonies with him but got the last word. Music Review: Michael Kiwanuka at the Highline Ballroom 2012-06-14T21:40:14Z "He had just finished shooting and he was exhausted. His last words were, 'I love you baby. I'll call you tomorrow.'" Filming accidents increased in last five years, data show 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z She delivers that last word with a kind of oratorical vibrato. Patricia Clarkson interview: 'I'd love to play an action hero!' 2013-06-25T18:00:00Z “Over the last 10 years, people have given me different awards that, if you died tomorrow, they’d have the last word,” Mr. Haggard said. Okie to Beatle: Kennedy Center Honorees 2010-09-07T22:00:00Z Don’t think for a moment this conversation will be the last word on the subject. Parents ask: Should we wait for our son to come out — or ask him ourselves if he’s gay? For all the teetering towers of language that the boys of “Ballyturk” build for themselves, the last word here, as it is in life, is beyond words. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z That could have been the last word, but it wasn’t. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z But Mr. Vidal, as usual, had the last word. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Mintschew always gets the last word, except in one instance: when Pintschew prevails in his argument to repeal the Passover Legume Ban—just as the Conservative rabbis prevailed last December. And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z After Unforgiven, Eastwood – essentially the genre in human form – only heightened its impact by suggesting it would be his final western, a last word on the subject. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The Last Supper, the last dance, famous last words, that Last Summer when someone knew what someone else did. Laura Solon: My Edinburgh 2010-08-20T12:59:00Z Burkeman would be the first to accept that he hasn't written the last word on human happiness. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z I read his last words in Ford’s Theatre — a poignantly unremarkable little husband-and-wife exchange. Commemorating Lincoln’s death in the city where he spent most of his life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z A copy of the scrap of linen where Johnson may have scribbled his last words is under glass. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z Ms Taylor said: "Danger Mouse is the last word in debonair and delightfully eccentric heroics," adding, "CBBC is thrilled to be kick-starting their adventures afresh." Danger Mouse to return to TV screens 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Famous last words are oft quoted, even if they aren’t true. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z The last word on the envelope, obviously meant to be “death,” is obscured. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z An accurate quote from the man himself, and some of the best last words in history. Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z Because of course part of you wants to change everything, every last word. Alex Preston on The Revelations – paperback Q&A 2012-08-14T16:21:37Z He would recall his mother’s last words that day, before she was sent to Auschwitz to die: “Do what they tell you to do,” she told him. Robert Clary, Who Took a Tragic Journey to ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ Dies at 96 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In her last words to her daughter, Elizabeth’s mother reckons with her choice: “I had to let you go. Everything was at stake.” The Americans Watch: The Evil Empire Strikes Home 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z My last words – before I passed out – were: “I just want to go home and be with my mum.” Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z They sound inflexible, and transmit the sort of easy misanthropy that doesn’t enlighten as much as give a man the last word. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Jane chooses blind, sensual Rochester, but Charlotte Brontë gives the last words of the novel to the dying Rivers. Ten of the best religious zealots in literature 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z She also remains a masterful performer and manipulator, and the Ways give her the first and last word. Review: On Netflix, a Wild Story of Guns, Sex and a Guru 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Gone, the last word in this list, reverberates. In Gary Simmons' hands, classic film titles ooze with racial history 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The last word in The Fault in Our Stars is “Okay.” Box Office: How the Stars Aligned for a Fabulous Fault Weekend 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z For drafts and drafts and drafts that was the last word, but now my conscious won’t let that be it. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z "After that long, I was ready to do something," Lambert said with a little extra Texas twang in that last word. After brief rest, Shelton and Lambert hit CMA fest 2012-06-07T16:44:40Z Finally she continued, languorously stretching out the last word: “You can hear the grass as it growwws.” Review: Karin Krog, a Norwegian Star, Plays at Joe’s Pub 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The last words he heard me say were “I love you,” and his last to me, said in his way, were “I love you, too.” Modern Love: Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound 2013-06-13T19:46:45Z The absolute last word in tragically hip happenings — that you’re not attending — is the late-summer Burning Man arts festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. | The Fabulous Lives of Others 2011-03-15T22:07:49Z O'Connor is most famous for being silenced, so I want to give her the last words, from a song she wrote and released two years before the "SNL" performance: "The Emperor's New Clothes." The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In any case, the generous bibliography at the end shows that Gaines intends this book as an introduction, not the last word. Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z On the other hand, that designer also gets the last word. 2020 Is Coming. How Will it Look? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Raising an eyebrow, she emphasized that last word as if she were telling a campfire mystery. Eiko, Without Koma, Creates in Philadelphia and Fukushima 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z But the court’s ruling almost certainly will not be the last word on America’s tangled efforts to address health care woes. FDA approves diet pill 2012-06-27T17:50:00Z By nightfall, Afghanistan is vividly present in all its complexity: its history, geography and its turbulent present collide and a dozen authorial voices compete for the last word. The Great Game: Afghanistan 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z That, and knowing and respecting what your own voice is telling you, and knowing life sometimes gets the last word — but those are two columns unto themselves. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: No, there isn’t really a compromise over whether to have kids 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Ma’s memorable last words were to any 13-year-olds in the audience: “Don’t throw anything away.” Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The momentum sweeps you away till that last word, “trembling,” and the echo it sends back. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The book centers on Miles Halter, a reserved student fascinated with famous last words and an enigmatic girl, Alaska Young. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z And if the performer fires back, they get the last word. How not to be a jerk at a concert 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z As it happens, the village eccentric, a hermit called Ash, is also in jail and hears the victim’s last words — words that prove to be a coded message about some real nastiness. Crime fiction from Sicily and Britain, and true tales of famous corpses 2013-03-07T20:45:06Z After all, death is obsessed with us, and it will have the last word. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z A terrific example of this is when she gets the last word after meeting with an RKO executive who cancels her contract with the studio. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And this is perhaps the last word that Stephen Lawrence heard as he lay bleeding to death on the pavement in Eltham. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z Two boys will find him later that day, “huddled on the steps”; he is taken to a local hospital—his last words, “I’m heartbroken.” A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The propagandistic story had it that the King’s last words were “Take care of my Yugoslavia.” My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z All of it is set to the beat of his music, which gets the last word. ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z That last word bounced around throughout the season: Liar, liar, liar. The lady vanishes: “Sherlock” and the case of the disposable women 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Then he crossed out the last word, and made it: “ … evil and unjust.” ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But Berg had the last word with his Allegro appassionato, seeming to make explicit the pervasive yearning of Schubert and take its Romantic sentiment to a breaking point. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Kevin Richardson, one of the five, has what lingers as the film’s last word. ‘The Central Park Five’ will make your blood boil 2012-12-13T22:20:05Z Back at the mock trial, after the judges wrapped up, the last word didn’t go to Justice Ginsburg but to Arrigo Cipriani, the owner of Harry’s Bar, which sponsored a cocktail reception after the ruling. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Presides Over Shylock’s Appeal 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps his weirdest tick involves habitually repeating the last word of his sentences in a creepy whisper. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z Only knowing Zimmermann’s concerto from recordings, I can’t say that the cellists were able to achieve the last word in interpretive nuance under such unreasonable conditions. Three L.A. cellists save the day with last-minute musical theatrics for the Phil 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z His last words are reputed to have been "Lord, open the king of England's eyes". The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z All of the above is taken from the new Penguin edition of the book that's generally held up as the last word in ancient wisdom about sack-play: The Kama Sutra. The Kama Sutra's lessons for modern lovers 2011-02-14T11:31:31Z But the publicist is back, so for the time being at least, this remarkable woman really has said her last word. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z Pudge is a likeable character; he's a bit quirky, and has a habit of remembering famous last words, and like many teenagers, he falls in love too hard and too fast. Looking for Alaska by John Green - review 2013-03-22T09:00:00Z One of Live Aid’s promoters ends up with the last word, saying, “In many ways, Live Aid was the last pure rock concert.” Review | ‘Rock Concert’ goes behind the scenes with the people who made the biggest shows happen 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Circumstances forced this episode to transform from one of the series' fictionalized departures into a stranger-than-fiction real story into – if not the last word on this arc – a cliffhanger at least. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z He declared the matter closed, denying you the last word. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s beside herself now that he’s beside someone else 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z This time, what got me was an embrace of the idea that Henry did not get the last word. Review | ‘Six’ is the pulse-quickening pleasure trove that Broadway has been waiting for 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The French artist Jean Dubuffet might have the best last word here. In the Documentaries of the Blackwood Brothers, Great Artists Explored 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z It was Bill Clinton, though, who got the last word - before Streisand, that is - praising the singer as driven, in the best way. Streisand feted by Clinton, Minnelli and friends 2013-04-23T07:01:05Z But it’s just a throwaway here, and Mr. Ovitz is given the last word. Review: ‘Powerhouse’ Recalls a Heyday of Matched Jaguars and Packaged Films 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Bailey’s book will not be the last word. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z As they wait for the ambulance, Frances catches the woman’s last words. New Books From Maggie Shipstead, Harriet Lane, Mark Haddon 2012-06-27T19:55:30Z But there was one constant: the closing tag line, “His prices are ins-a-a-a-ane!,” with the last word drawn out over several syllables. Remembering Crazy Eddie: His Prices Were Insane 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z But it was Mr. Lewis, who had the last word in the duet version of “ ’S Wonderful” that ended the program. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z We might also remember that his last words, according to Plato, were advice to his friends to sacrifice a cockerel to the god Asclepius. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z On the flip side, in the space reserved for messages, Baldessari wrote a single sentence: “O.K., O.K., What were my last words to you?” John Baldessari: An Artist in a Class by Himself 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The execution scene is recreated with impressive accuracy, then spoiled by bungling Jane's last words. Grey areas 2010-08-26T08:28:00Z Those are famous last words, of course, so let me allow some wiggle room and guess that I can accurately predict at least 8 of the eventual 10 best-picture nominees. Early Oscar odds: "Inception" vs. "Social Network" 2010-10-21T11:01:00Z The last word ... replica letters on the facade of Liverpool's Everyman theatre are set alight. Liverpool's Everyman theatre says goodbye ? for the moment 2011-07-05T16:30:56Z We might think, logically, that his last songs are like last words — a suicide note or a will. In Praise of Blue Notes: What Makes Music Sad? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z His last words, before he was hauled away by the critique police, were, “I kind of liked Get Hard.“ Don't Tell Anyone, But I Kind of Liked Get Hard 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The last word, however, after an evening of such combined compositional strength and performing brilliance, must be devoted to the Dutch bass Harry van der Kamp. Music that speaks, thanks to Pacific MusicWorks 2014-04-11T18:02:17Z Fittingly, Stravinsky had the last word, in an exactingly performed, exuberant account of his ingenious Octet conducted by Mr. Heras-Casado. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z He said he expects his last words to be, “I wasn’t finished!” Peter Beagle, Author of ‘The Last Unicorn,’ Is Back In Control 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z It is still made in six days, like Jehovah's universe, from the first word written to the last word broadcast. At 40, 'Saturday Night Live' is still in its prime 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Mallette doesn't identify her numerous abusers, including a male baby sitter and the grandfather of a friend, but the last words of her book's acknowledgments speak volumes. Bieber mom Pattie Mallette writes of painful past 2012-09-24T20:43:08Z He repeated the last word while a spacious, static-heavy rhythm buzzed. Camp Flog Gnaw churns to Pharrell, Odd Future 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z For now, Wills is the last word in silent comedy. Review: The Boy With Tape On His Face 2010-08-10T14:38:00Z “I’ll see you on Monday,” were his last words to Mr. Cropper. The Enduring Power of Otis Redding’s ‘Dock of the Bay’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Still, with his website informing us he is "now an international celebrity himself", do consider Sir Parky the last word in self-effacement. 'Russell Brand is pointless,' says Michael Parkinson 2010-10-14T19:00:00Z The district attorney’s last words quieted the courtroom. Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z Those are not, however, the play’s last words. Tennessee Williams, Restless and Revising 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z He responded to the last word: “That. Psychodrama, except without the ‘drama’ bit.” Nick Cave’s dark, strange and sometimes hilarious odyssey 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But, he added: “the cycle as a whole was not the last word in subtlety or structural command, let alone philosophical vision.” Classical Music This Week: Beethoven Reviewed and Birthdays 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Can you cede the last word, or will you try to sway the other person to your way of thinking? Should you talk politics on a vacation abroad? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s partly to suggest that criticism is an unfinished conversation and is always about argument and dispute and the impossibility of a last word. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Moreover, at oral argument, he said that he did not expect his decision to be the last word on the case. ArtsBeat: Forensic Art Expert’s Libel Case Against New Yorker Magazine Is Dismissed 2013-08-02T19:25:37Z The first and last words are conspicuously formal, and by being sandwiched between them the slang ones flash their strange originality. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Famous last words that include one that isn't a word. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z To suggest that Asher try to dishonestly remember would be unladylike, so I’ll let the letter X, as in exit, be the last word. Review | In a new book, an insider offers a firsthand look at the Beatles. Here are a few takeaways. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z His strangulated cry mulches phonemes and petulantly drags the last word in a line; sometimes he drifts into flamboyantly slack vowels that seem way more West Coast surfer than East Coast skater. New Music: Career In Motion Discovers A Perch 2011-07-25T21:45:24Z It is the last word in concentrated compression by theater’s greatest condenser. Getting down to the basics in Peter Brook's 'Battlefield' 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z It was clear he relished saying that last word. Timeless Cocktails on the Lower East Side 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “The Secret Token,” spanning more than 400 years, offers the most authoritative account of the Lost Colony to date, if not the last word. ‘The Secret Token’ Review: America’s First Unsolved Mystery 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “They will be sur-prised,” sings Porter, unexpectedly diving to bass depth on the last word. Catch Gregory Porter at the Moore on June 17 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z At the end of her brief stay, she left resigned that Disney would have the last word. ‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z I hate to give a dictator the last word, so let me ask, what happened with the triumphal boulevard? Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco Marvel: A Virtual Tour 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z With his last words for the crowd, Howard mimicked Griffith, who was famous for telling the audience three words at the end of his shows: "I appreciate it." Ron Howard's remarks played at Mayberry Days 2012-09-30T15:41:13Z If “Robin and Marian” isn’t the last word on the Robin Hood legend, then it’s certainly the most profound. DVDs: Stealing From the Rich, Sherwood-Style, Over Years 2010-05-22T07:04:00Z Mr. Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry soon after his death, which was caught on video and viewed by millions. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Buried The last word in claustrophobic scenarios: Ryan Reynolds wakes up inside a coffin, six feet underground, armed only with a lighter and a cellphone. From Panic Room to Cabin Fever: films about isolation, to watch in self-isolation 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z And when Ted finally brought his story to a conclusion, his children, now teenagers, got the last word. The TV Watch: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Ends With Twists Expected and Sweet 2014-04-01T04:10:26Z Of course any response from him is made unnecessary because of the riposte from Estelle Reiner, but denying Harry the last word feels like a victory for Sally here. The best scene in "When Harry Met Sally..." – the fake orgasm – was a group effort 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Judge Snyder’s ruling may not be the last word on “Dark Horse,” however. Katy Perry Prevails as Judge Erases ‘Dark Horse’ Decision 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Ruth yells, and those are her last words ever spoken. "Ozark:" Too little, too late 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Her last words as she left were: “For what it’s worth, I am sorry.” The moment our marriage was over: 'With a few words, she destroyed my life' 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Unscrolled, they read, in plain black type, “ugliness or beauty,” “truth or lies,” “courage or fear,” “kindness or cruelty,” “love or ____.” The space for the last word on the last scroll was left blank. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s also telling that mom gets the last word in “Look What You’ve Done.” Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z But Ms. Chicago, still an iconoclast with a head of silver and dyed-purple curls, has lived to get the last word. In Dishes and Dolls, a Foundation of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The last word goes to a celebration of the life and work of Alexander Graham Bell. Readers recommend: songs about telephones – results 2012-10-04T16:16:34Z At the nooses, he asks his four stabbers for last words. “Game of Thrones”: Bran Stark and the Tower of Joy 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Take a look at his final major British building, No 1 Poultry, built as the last word in the notorious Mansion House Square saga and not completed till 1998, well after Stirling's death. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z But that’s not the last word with which she leaves us. Review: It’s Norman Mailer vs. Feminists in ‘The Town Hall Affair’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z My job is to make sure that Frank Zappa has the last word in terms of anybody’s idea of who he is. Gail Zappa, widow of Frank Zappa and protector of his iconoclastic rock legacy, dies at 70 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Boxes and boxes of archive files line the temperature-controlled corridors, housing the last words and testament of roughly 41 million people. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “We’re absolutely not becoming a franchise,” he said, emphasizing that last word with disdain. Soho House Is Taking the Party Global 2012-06-01T22:43:25Z As she finished the song - and paused - a fan yelled out the last word of the groove to laughs from the crowd. Nicks, Fogerty, more perform with Grohl in NYC 2013-02-14T17:16:09Z But the days when cocktail napkins, swizzle sticks, cardboard coasters and matchbooks were the last word in tactile advertising are over. Bartender, There’s a Logo in My Drink 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z But instead of having the last word, a key part of Ms. Constand’s narrative — if not her book — was rewritten Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court freed Mr. Cosby on procedural grounds. Her Book Described Bringing Bill Cosby to Justice. Then He Was Freed. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z I finally learned the subtle differences between the jewelry terms bijou, joaillerie, and joyau—the last word indicating the most precious pieces and definitely the mot juste for my latest creations. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Guide to Paris 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “Suck my nuts,” retorted Abraham, which, coincidentally, will be my last words. The Walking Dead season seven premiere: The Day Will Come When You Won't Be 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Wolf scoffed at the media’s ever-enduring Trump obsession – the reason why she suggested news outlets hang onto his every last word. Michelle Wolf went full meta on “The Break,” and it was the best comedy moment all week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The lawn at the cultural center is showcasing five phrases written in neon, all the last words of notable people. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It seems a little too fitting, although haunting too, that the last words we hear from Damon, in response to an encouraging question from the chaplain, are “Never mind.” | 'When I Come to Die': When the Final Curtain Doesn?t Fall 2011-02-11T03:01:32Z Sullivan does a nice job of conveying her subject's point of view without accepting it as the last word. What was it like to be 'Stalin's Daughter'? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z "It's not the last word, it's the first word," Neville said in an interview. Backup singers take center stage in new documentary film 2013-06-14T19:30:42Z The last words of “The Kingdom” are “I don’t know.” Can a chic Parisian intellectual also be a Christian? 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Even though I know Hakola called Alfred a comedian ironically, I still picture an old man standing behind a microphone, with a gleam in his eye, saying those last words before taking a bow. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z The shirts refer to the last words uttered by Eric Garner, the unarmed man who died after being put in an apparent choke hold by a New York City police officer in July. 'I Can't Breathe' and the Not-So Protected Speech of Professional Athletes 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The last word is given to Harry Patch, the final known survivor of the trenches, who died in 2009, aged 111. UK museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWI 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z "Oh yeah," she says, with a faint glimmer of a smile, "he always had to have the last word." Tony Nicklinson: 'I have a fear of living like this when I am old and frail' 2012-06-23T21:04:49Z Of course, Vonnegut’s is not the last word on the subject. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z The last words before he was Returned to the north by train, the last words Rahel ever heard him utter. Digested classic: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2010-04-15T11:25:00Z Wittgenstein’s last words were “I’ve had a wonderful life,” we learn, “which might’ve been a Frank Capra allusion, because he loved Hollywood films.” Review: In ‘The Undertaking,’ Considering the End With Some Laughter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Virtually everyone else, every non-abuser, deserves some last word, even if it’s to say: “Do not contact me again; I won’t respond.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Instead of ghosting, try being transparent 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Her last words to him were, “Worship God.” Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z In what he said was his last word on the subject, Mr. Allen vigorously denied the accusations, suggesting they were a part of a yearslong smear campaign by his former partner Mia Farrow. The Carpetbagger: Cate Blanchett Has Front-Runner Oscar Status 2014-02-12T23:00:41Z It is almost certainly the last word that many black men from Hunter's own hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, heard before they were lynched. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z “I’m still the last word on fit,” Ms. Epstein said. Hanky Panky, Made in the U.S.A. Since 1977 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Anyway, take the last word, but regardless, solid effort and I enjoyed reading it. The Tortuous Conservative History of the Individual Mandate 2012-02-07T20:32:34Z He turns that last word into sort of a small death yelp, a compromise between country modesty and full soul release. Review: Toby Keith and George Strait Put Country Spins on Classic Soul 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Or with the last word, depending on how you want to think about it. Marc Jacobs and the Ghosts of Fashion Past and Future 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s droll until it isn’t; at the end, she proclaims, “I want to be loved,” and that last word stretches for a rasping, breathless 17 seconds. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z “I still remember their last words to me: ‘Please don’t forget us’. 'Please don't forget us': the hellish search for Syria's lost prisoners 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Characters sing their last words alone in prison or in palaces, or surrounded by shocked onlookers. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A kaleidoscopic, impressionistic portrait of the artist as a far-out genius, “Jimi: All Is by My Side” doesn’t profess to be either the first or last word on James Marshall Hendrix. ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side,’ a Jimi Hendrix Biopic 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z No singer can have the last word on such demanding parts, but Varnay comes close to mastering them all. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z She showed me her upper arm, adorned with the three “I love you’s” he said to her, her mother and her brother, his last words. For this acclaimed pastry chef, home tastes like a coffee cake 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z "But it's not about your work," he says, scornfully biting out the last word. Alan Cumming: King of off-message 2011-01-24T21:30:00Z Jacobs gets the last word Thursday night, before the fashion crowd moves to London, then Milan and Paris. NY Fashion Week fades to black on runway and off 2013-02-13T21:35:13Z The last word on innate gender differences was given by two far superior Cutting Edge documentaries, Boys Alone and Girls Alone eight years ago. This World: Stolen Brides, The Normans, Four Sons Versus Four Daughters 2010-08-12T07:00:00Z It’s probably no accident that Bey slides into the last word of that lyric, making it sound even less radio friendly. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z Our last words together on his deathbed were very ordinary, bland. Why the Irish get death right 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want to pretend to be somebody who knew the last word about the Troubles,” says Alex Gibney, director of No Stone Unturned, a new documentary about the Loughinisland killings. 'Why was there a cover-up?': film-maker Alex Gibney on a case of cold killing in County Down 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z I am thinking of her last words, among which were, according to NPR, “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave us more than enough 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Book or not — could O’Reilly possibly turn down an opportunity to have the last word? 10 “Daily Show” villains we’d love to see roast Jon Stewart on his final episode 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z He coined the term "the big sleep" to describe death: two years later it was quoted as the last words of a notorious gangster. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z But Sony made the first bid, and closed the deal when its president for business affairs, Andrew Gumpert, showed up, uninvited, at the agency to insist on having the last word. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z "That was his last words to me," she said. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The only unusual touch is that last word, “13”. What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I was struck by the clarity and purpose of her farewell to life, the eloquence with which she shaped what she knew would be her last words. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Mary ardently and persuasively deflates his points and has the last word in their debate. ‘The Newsroom’ Ends Its Final Season on HBO 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z His last words were reportedly: "I have lived as a philosopher; I die as a Christian." Casanova unveiled: new edition of his book reveals the man who loved liberty as much as women 2013-03-30T13:04:25Z Her last words to her attorney, James J. Leonard Jr., when he delivered the 42-year-old mother of four to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, at 3 a.m. Teresa Giudice's Last Words Before Prison: 'Tell Joe and the Girls I'm Good' 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Shannon Johnson, a county health inspector who died shielding a co-worker, is memorialized in an alcove bearing his searing last words: “I got you. Lord, have mercy.” A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z “The only ones who want to read every last word are the people in the stories.” Generation B: Keeping the Plates Spinning 2010-02-20T05:16:00Z But no amount of calculation can guarantee the last word. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z “We consider the letter from his son, James Fry, to The New York Times to be the last word on the subject,” Winger said via email. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z “I consider it one of the great privileges of my professional life to have been able to work with this extraordinary man in memorializing his last words for posterity,” Young said in a statement. Final thoughts from Rep. John Lewis to be published in July 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z In the end, neither had the last word. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Did you think 3D was the last word in immersive cinema? This week's new film events 2013-03-30T06:00:12Z And I’ll give Gene Wolfe the last word: It is of course to you of this counterculture that I write to say, take heart! Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z Looks like it’s going to be passing, hopefully — famous last words — in a very bipartisan way. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer beat Donald Trump at his own game — reality TV 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Like the last words of the Passover Seder — “Next year in Jerusalem” — his words ushered the hope, if not the promise, of a return to this family’s sacred ground. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “I am your son,” are his last words to his father. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: The Irony Throne 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z David Washburn, the stellar piccolo trumpeter, had the eloquent last word with his lone concerto, the Fourth. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Among his last words, according to a friend, were: “Thank God I won’t have to deal with the internet.” Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z They asked if he had any last words. What it’s like to watch him die 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z "It was sad to watch him slip away. The last words he heard were that he was a hero, a legend and we all loved him," he said. Z-Cars actor Jimmy Ellis dies at 82 2014-03-09T12:53:28Z It was, he said, “ the middle finger I couldn’t raise in the PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles…with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.” Justin Bieber Killed the Mustache 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z But the brutal truth, Kozinn and Sinclair write, was that "Paul was most comfortable having both the first and last word." "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “And her last words to me as she got on the plane were: ‘Don’t get too cocky.’” David Chase on why he wrote The Sopranos: 'I needed help. I needed therapy' 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Beginning his imaginary remarks, Martin said: “Wow, not much of a turnout. Marty did not want to be cremated — too late. But I’ll always be haunted by Marty’s last words: ‘Tesla autopilot, engage.’” Steve Martin and Martin Short Trade Barbs, and Eulogies, on ‘S.N.L.’ 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z “Your last words to me were ‘I love you too.’” The Album Steve Earle Never Wanted to Make: A Tribute to His Son 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z In the end it is Detective Phelps who gets the last word. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z Still, he knows, ultimately, time will have the last word. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Eccentric British composers certainly deserve their place in the Proms pantheon, but Andrew was never going to have the last word in his admirably diplomatic review of Brian's gargantuan first symphony. The Proms 2011: week one in review 2011-07-27T16:01:18Z And in a show called “Women of Will,” which makes a point of the puns within its last word, it isn’t a good idea to end so many sentences with “if you will.” | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z I don’t go to the Odeon for the last word in culinary fashions, which were part of the package under the first chef, Patrick Clark. The Odeon’s Not-So-Bright Lights Still Beckon 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Partly because Scriptures are revered, they are often regarded today as fossilized, the last word for all eternity. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z If, in some quarters, Hitchcock and his films are still considered the last word in misogynistic creepiness, Vertigo is exhibit No 1. Vertigo is not the last word in misogyny, but a feminist deconstruction of it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “It’s not clear who will have the last word in this conflict.” Russian Dissident Artist Will Seek Asylum in France 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z An understanding that marriage shifts and grows and changes in its own ways — and if anything it’s the effort you put in that gets the last word. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should I feel guilty about keeping a pregnancy secret? 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Listen closely to his last words: “A tuber root, eh?” Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A Pop Chart for Web Era Challenges Billboard’s Billboard’s charts of albums and singles, published in their current form since the 1950s, are the last word in music rankings. BigChampagne?s Pop Chart Challenges Billboard?s 2010-07-21T22:17:00Z The lyrics to Jackson’s song reference Garner’s last words after being placed in a chokehold by police. Watch Samuel L. Jackson Urge Celebrities to Join in Protesting 'Racist Police' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But Ms. McVie was the band’s quieter center of attention, and she had the last word with her “Songbird.” Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac at the Garden 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z But it's pretty much the last word from someone on the way out. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun 2012-05-25T13:18:02Z Religious laws are simply not the last word for almost anyone but about 14 people that you definitely would not want to meet. It’s bigger than Kim Davis: What makes “sincerely held religious beliefs” so special? 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Flight 93’s cockpit recorder captured the hijackers’ last words and a flight attendant’s begging for her life. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z "Don't live to be 89," was her last word on her long eventful life. Eric Newby's other half 2011-04-05T08:00:04Z Disney, of course, created an empire, but you get the sense that Mitenbuler’s heart is really with Fleischer, who in a memorable passage is even allowed the last word. Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Handy takes this exchange to mean that dads always need to have the last word. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z She announced the last word with a relish that suggested the Renaissance staple is rarely described as such. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Plus, as Knight explained, Ghazvininejad’s team came up with some clever innovations, such as telling the computer to pick the last word of each line first, then plucking rhyming pairs that seemed topically similar. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And although technically Bruce Springsteen sang the last word, Stewart spoke the final words, offering a warm display of gratitude to his colleagues and audience: Here's Jon Stewart's Tearful Goodbye to 'The Daily Show' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The text’s last words, from Lennon: “It was just a matter of time before everybody else caught on.” Books of The Times: ‘Tune In,’ Part 1 of a Beatles Biography, by Mark Lewisohn 2013-12-11T21:46:20Z And Cornelius would close each show with his sign-off: "Love, peace, and SOUL!" drawing out the pronunciation of the last word with his deep voice. 'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide 2012-02-02T11:48:22Z It was Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s favorite hymn, and it’s said that his last words were a request to have it ring at his funeral. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Bombay is the first and last word of this first novel, an urban history written by a former drug addict through the changing composition of opiates and the changing characters of their users. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z He sees a fox-cub, one of the Vixen's daughters, and a frog, who, in a child's voice, has the last words of the show, telling the Forester that his grandpa "told me about you!" The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z The disturbing thing is that it’s so easy, even after everything we’ve witnessed, to accept his last word, to see the whole story from his point of view. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Nixon would serve nearly four more years before his resignation, but with regard to the verdict on his presidency, Wills had the last word. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z While the battle against superstitious folly does indeed span generations, that also means the odds against getting the last word are forbidding, to put it mildly. Hitchens faces his mortality 2012-09-04T17:19:00Z The last word on the philosophy of Neapolitan tailoring goes to Mr. Tofani. Naples, a Haven of Hand Work 2014-04-21T06:03:10Z It was a good question, though those were Mr. Smith’s last words. Joye Cottage, a Love Story 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Uighurs and Tibetans, consequently, are peoples resisting “the colonization of their country,” that last word being one Beijing abhors and considers an expression of “splittism.” ‘The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China’ 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z My last words to him that night were “Don’t drink.” My son, the repeat offender 2013-01-24T18:16:00Z I asked the people behind me to be quiet so I could get good, clean sound of the dying man’s last words. I almost died in Syria 2013-04-09T00:00:00Z The last words I heard from one little girl were: “Thank you for holding my hand when I was scared.” What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Oddly he gives the last word to Martin Scorsese, who prattles on for two uninterrupted pages about the influence of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro lighting on the cinematography of Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z But let’s leave the last word to Rose McGowan – perhaps the star who has emerged from the past few months with the most scars. American hustle: how Hollywood rips off women 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “However, as far as I know, ‘Get off me’ were very possibly the last words she spoke.” The fatal, hateful rise of choking during sex 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z In "Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World," it's like the key was the last word "world" because we've seen this metastasized over 50 years. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z There are no moving last words, no epiphanic speech for Walt, who instead leaves the world after telling Lydia that she is going to die a painful death of poison for threatening his family. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z As we came to the last words, he put a thumb in his mouth, shook off the day with a tiny shake, and settled down sweetly into his papa’s lap. ‘A Concert of Parents Wrapped in Memories’: Readers on ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But they are Beethoven’s last word in the solo sonata, a genre he inherited from Mozart and Haydn and that he radically transformed to suit his own expressive aims. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But “grim” is, somehow, the last word one might use to describe this book. A Bawdy Novel Considers the Tragic Absurdities of Lebanon’s Civil War 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Many masks read “I can’t breathe,” which were among the last words Floyd spoke as he died with a white police officer’s knee pressed down on his neck. Perspective | George Floyd was an ordinary man. His memorial was a reminder of that simple, powerful fact. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z By giving plucky Ada the last word with an image readers will easily recognize as the poet’s, O’Connor suggests that the connection between Miss Emily and her maid was indeed reciprocal. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen’s last words in the song are “I’m ready, my Lord,” and he’s never sounded closer to mortality. The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z These books are a launching pad for debate, not the last word. Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z “The feeling still deep down is good,” he insists, shouting the last word as if to persuade himself. The Best Songs of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z I remember the way she stopped short in the lobby, her eyes ringed with glittery purple makeup, and announced, “My mind is just cheese,” giving the last word a nasally punch. Postscript: Carrie Fisher, 1956-2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z My friend felt that his son, as a young Berliner, was denying the murderers the last word. Finding Space for the Living at a Memorial 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z “The curator always has the first and last word relating to everything in his show,” he added. Invisible Hand in MoMA Shows 2010-02-17T23:20:00Z The village hermit hears the victim’s last words — a coded message — and it’s up to rookie cop Hazel Best to pierce the hermit’s formidable psychic defenses and solve the puzzle. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z His last words to us are bitter, “I been there before.” ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z This year, there is no slam-dunk front-runner … except perhaps the heartbreaking famous last words of a real-life country-music icon as the sun sets on his mind. Glen Campbell's 'I'm Not Gonna Miss You' in tight original song race 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Having the last word was once a sign of one’s wit and smarts. Everyone around you is sexting: Is it helping us hold commitment at arm’s length? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z You know, were his last words, You really are very lazy. Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z All three women happily join hands, creating an image that movingly suggests that solitude is not the last word in human life, even in the world of Beckett. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Maybe my memory is fuzzy, or maybe I’m dreaming, but I think it used to be that “masterpiece” was the last word, the end of the discussion, rather than the starting point. Film: ?Inception? Criticism Raises Questions for Critics 2010-07-23T22:17:00Z Once heard, Harnick’s lyrics seem like the last word on their subjects. Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z After the inevitable crash, his last words are the title of the song. Jean Dinning, Songwriter of Pop Tragedy ?Teen Angel,? Dies at 86 2011-03-12T05:30:07Z There are a few last words, a few tears and a heartfelt promise of a quick return. A few dozen stops — and even more flights — on the way to my summer’s reading 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z She cracks up a bit on that last word, as if she is unable to argue against irony with a completely straight face. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z The thing is if someone behaves in a really annoying way, the journalist always has the last word – I'd have rather written something interesting, but instead I just wrote about what happened. From Rhys Ifans to Madonna: writers on their worst celebrity interviews 2013-06-07T17:06:35Z It’s a never-ending cycle of people trying to get the last word. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Debating Pot in America 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Offering him the last word allows him to reflect that humanity back on Wong, and that last touch makes the book nothing short of magical. Comedian Ali Wong's book "Dear Girls" tells a magical, raunchy love story 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The thing about a book is that you get to have the last word. Assaulted at 15, a Writer Looks Back and Comes Forward 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The day he died, an attending doctor found him “walking around his room in an agitated state. ‘My book, my book,’ Wright kept repeating” — the last words attributed to him. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z For a moment, I almost thought it was "Please", since that was his last word before the Whispermen retreated. Doctor Who recap: The Name of the Doctor – series 33, episode 13 2013-05-18T18:45:00Z He also gets the last word, when he is asked for three words to sum up the rioters. London theater turns England's riots into a drama 2011-11-24T16:08:14Z In an industry of accomplished makeup artists, Ms. McGrath is the last word on the beautiful — or startling modern — face. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z In a way we gave him the last word. ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay on His Cheney ‘Character Portrait’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Instead, the last word is left almost exclusively to the orchestra in what must be the longest interlude in the opera. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z Throughout the current season, in fact, Biss is also partnering with the Brentano String Quartet and tenor Mark Padmore in a series of programs devoted to this phenomenon of “last words” in music. Jonathan Biss reflects on ‘late style’ in piano masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms and Kurtág 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The woman who gets the last word without needing to say anything at all. Listen to “Shining,” Beyoncé’s Last Word at the Grammys 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Ultimately, Erika gets the last word when she repeats one of those stock DSD queries back to Nora: “What were the last words they said to you, to the best of your recollection?” ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Her Eye Is on the Sparrow 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z After the last word – a long, abruptly severed cry of "crop" – the whole room snaps to black. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z He enjoys relating the story of the eccentric Lord Grimthorpe, whose last words were reportedly, “We are low on marmalade.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z When executed well, détournement is an exercise in getting the last word in, since art lingers longer than a snarky internet meme. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Even the cold-hearted media baron's last words revealed a warm corner of his heart for childhood nostalgia. When Paddington conquered Citizen Kane, a cinematic throwdown revealing our obsession with ratings 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z That was supposed to be the last word. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Grunge and its raffish offshoots, once dour expressions of a wholesale rejection of fashion, are back for an encore, reborn, paradoxically, as fashion’s last word. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z |
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