We were all on our feet (93,103), and Vin gave eloquent expression to that powerful moment: "The lights are going out in this final tribute to Roy Campanella, and everyone at the ballpark... are asked in silent tribute to light a match," he said.
The Times of London echoed the world press in its final tribute: "He created the métier of showman on a grandiose scale.…He early realized that essential feature of a modern democracy, its readiness to be led to what will amuse and instruct it.…His name is a proverb already, and a proverb it will continue".
And in a final tribute to the earliest-ever Florida Primary, which McCain won on Tuesday in what could be remembered as the GOP's king-maker contest, please indulge this posting of a photo depicting Katherine Harris holding a possum by its tail.
Drawn in a trailer behind an olive green army jeep, Castro's ashes have made a 600-mile (1,000-km 1,000-km in which hundreds of thousands of Cubans, many chanting "I am Fidel!," have lined up on roadsides and gathered in plazas for a final tribute.
Her crews had been high on the hill since Friday drilling to make sure the rounds were fired in perfect precision as a final tribute to the man who changed her life.
Here Jonson held forth on the nature of poetry and drama and paid his final tribute to Shakespeare: in spite of acknowledging a belief that his great contemporary was, on occasion, "full of wind"—sufflaminandus erat he declared that "I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any".
As to Fox News, the home page on August 5 carried only a brief bottom-of-page note on the jobs report (below a couple of photos of Britney Spears in apparent beachwear--perhaps a final tribute to the departed Roger Ailes), which seems to affirm their maxim: "If you can't say something bad about Obama's performance, say as little as possible".
The burning of a Flag should take place at a campfire in a ceremony separate from the Ceremony of Final Tribute.
The fans that stayed until the final buzzer Tuesday night rose and gave the Rockets a standing ovation, a final tribute to the second longest winning streak in N.B.A. history.
