And the wonderful opening of "Translation": Death is nature's way of telling you to be quiet.
We could have, when it was decided fifty years ago, to inscribe this day of commemoration in the calendars of nations, chosen the anniversary of the opening of the death camps.
It's 1920 at the opening of A LONELY DEATH (Morrow/ HarperCollins $24.99), the latest of Charles Todd's masterly novels about England's slow and painful recovery from the Great War.
"Informers must die" was the motto of a Flatbush drug gang that prospered by killing and intimidating witnesses against it, a prosecutor said yesterday at the opening of a federal death penalty trial of a Brooklyn man accused of being a feared member of the gang.
(Think of a flattened, understated version of the tense opening of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," too polite to cut loose into a full-fledged scream.) Ms. Akalaitis, who is famous for muddying the meanings of classic plays, is actually a dispenser of clarity this time around.
The moment ends abruptly when the runner in front of me trips and falls forward just as we reach the opening at the end of death alley.
Now, take a few minutes to fantasize about the weekend via our jam-packed itinerary... Start the weekend by exercising your visual literacy at the A Lovely Sort of Death opening at HVW8 Gallery off of Melrose.
Moreover, TRAP1 prevents the oxidative damage caused by cerebral ischemia in a rat model [146], and inhibits PTP opening and death of hypoxic cardiomyocytes [147].
As a lifelong hypochondriac, I see no reason to wait a whole year, or even a whole month, to find out if that fizzy feeling in my fingers, the occasional twitching in my right (or is it my left?) eye, or the inability to remember the last name of the comedy duo of Peter Cook and Dudley ___ are one of Death's opening acts.
On October 20, though, 400 people gathered outside the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan to protest the opening of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer.
