But for once, thank heaven, she does not die as a doormat.
You will, of course, see none of this at the Democratic convention, where "optimism" will be the default setting and even Mr. Kerry will once more, heaven help him and us, attempt to smile.
Triandos once said, "Heaven is a place where no one throws a knuckleball".
"It may have taken me 50 years or more to get it done, but I didn't do it all at once, for heaven's sake!
As the great Belinda Carlisle once confirmed, heaven truly is a place on earth, which in our estimation is in the form of 118 islands, in the midst of the Pacific Ocean.
The Talking Heads once sang that heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
It is hard to imagine her saying, as the Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias once did, that "Heaven is not taken by consensus – it is taken by assault".
Better to wrestle at the edges of comprehension than to expect, as Wallace Stevens once wrote of Heaven, "that they should wear our colors there, and pluck the strings of our insipid lutes".
Just blocks from the union hall of United Steelworkers Local 1999, a neighborhood once nicknamed "Hillbilly Heaven" was now known as "Little Mexico". Nearly every business along a busy stretch of road advertised in Spanish.
MRS. NICHOLSON, retired after having gone through several careers, has given her support to a campaign by the City Department for the Aging to persuade New Yorkers that there is no reason to race to white-belt heaven once the Social Security checks start arriving.
