Her final piece for a sculpture class was a papier-mâché baby, sprouting needles like a porcupine.
But all of this was positively anodyne when compared with the final piece, for which the program was titled.
Ms. Levine, who has worked at NPR since 1977, said she decided the final episode, and her final piece for NPR, should be about her own situation.
In "Tree Fall," his final piece for the park, eucalyptus branches coated in cracked clay extend across the clay-covered ceiling of a former munitions storeroom.
Miller's final piece for Vogue (July 1953) was titled "Working Guests," and it showed such art world figures as the director of New York City's Museum of Modern Art Alfred H. Barr, Jr., feeding the pigs on their farm.
It's apt that Updike's final piece for the magazine should be poetry; the first appearance of his byline in print was over a poem called "Duet, With Muffled Brake Drums", published in 1954.
His final book, The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism, published last year, brought together 100 of his most memorable magazine and newspaper essays, culminating with his final piece for the Architects' Journal, written in April 2005, shortly before declining health prompted his retirement.
Safer's final piece for "60 Minutes" -- a profile of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels -- aired in March.
The late Marina Keegan, whose book of essays was released last month, sums this up heartbreakingly in her final piece for the Yale Daily News.
