Among a finely calibrated ensemble, acting honors surely go to Phoebe Nicholls as the older version of the solitary Elizabeth, who must bid farewell first to a husband, then a son.
His poem Odiljenje sigetsko ("The Sziget Farewell"), first published in 1684, reminisces about the event without rancour or crying for revenge.
During the 1907 08 season, he led XVIII of Bendigo against the touring English team and made a farewell first-class appearance against the tourists for Victoria.
Those old season-ending tournaments were the stage for sweet farewells, first for Navratilova, later for Steffi Graf.
But a farewell dinner first, if she were able.
As well as publishing his verse translation of The Divine Comedy and a collection of essays, Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014 (Picador), with another volume in the works, he has made so many "farewell appearances" (first in London and then at the Cambridge Union) that his friend, PJ O'Rourke, has advised him to "soft-pedal this death's door stuff because people will get impatient".
The Bride's Farewell, her fourth novel, is set in the 19th century, in the ragged, savage rural economy of Thomas Hardy, where to be both poor and female is as good as being born invisible.
Champion jockey AP McCoy was denied a fairytale Aintree farewell, finishing fifth on favourite Shutthefrontdoor.
Making "The Farewell," her second feature to date, in and around her grandmother's home, with Nai Nai's own sister playing herself and the family's biggest secret at its center, is in a way Wang's response to an impossible situation made even more complex by cultural and generational disagreements.
"I think this is the fifth or sixth farewell party, and there's more to come," Zantovsky´ said merrily.
"Antone's Farewell-to-Fifth-Street Finale" will be a bon voyage to the current club, which opened in 1997, and there will be performances by a score of musicians, including Jimmie Vaughan, who recently returned to the stage after a heart attack and whose Fabulous Thunderbirds were the house band at the original Antone's, on Sixth Street.
