All of which accounts for the scenes of pop-cultural mourning which greeted the news of Amstell and Oliver's departure, leaving hard acts to follow for their replacements, comedian Alex Zane and newcomer Alexa Chung.
Its character represents a deliberate departure, hard-won by advocates like the local civic association, which in 2005 won the area new zoning protection.
Reid also admits that he took Clarke's departure harder than most, saying the Scot was one of the best coaches he has played under.
Mr. Gandolfi has a great ear for effect: the glissandos and arching violin lines in the third movement of "Point of Departure" are hard to resist, and they turn up again at the start of "Themes From a Summer Night" (2001), a light-spirited 10-movement suite drawn from an incidental score Mr. Gandolfi wrote for a production of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".
In reality a less amicable departure is hard to imagine, even though an internal inquiry exonerated O'Leary of involvement in a mutinous players' statement which criticised Ellis's parsimonious stewardship of Villa, one of the oldest, and most under-achieving, names in English football.
There are, however, unconfirmed claims of a mass departure of hard-line party members.
The benefit of Mr Santer's departure is harder to detect.
It was early 1983, probably, after the "Everything Falls Apart" EP presaged Hüsker Dü's departure from hard-core punk and before the "Metal Circus" EP made it official.
Undeterred by the weather or the Senator's departure, die-hard fans gathered Tuesday night for Liberty Karaoke, a singalong campaign fundraiser at which giddy young conservatives could blow off steam and celebrate Paul's entry into presidential politics.
The void left by their departure may be hard to fill, she said.
With his departure, it's hard to think of whom one could call a prominent moderate theoretician in the Bush Administration.
