The three-year project, supported by a $900,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, unusually large for a work of sociology and history, bears the irresistible title "Grammars of Death".
The overlong full title of "The Death of the Last Black Man" tells us what it's about, but not what it's really about, which is language — the rich sound and implications of black English.
"For whatever reason we do have the unwanted unofficial title of Drugs Death Capital of England," she said In fact, in the past couple of years, Brighton has slipped back from the No 1 spot for drug-related deaths.
These achievements, among other things, have earned him the title of 'Dr. Death'.
Arthur Miller's original title for "Death of a Salesman" was "The Inside of His Head," until he came to his senses: all of literature is about the inside of somebody's head.
Sixteen days after his death, Wallace's double-disc second album was released as planned with the shortened title of Life After Death and hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, after making a premature appearance at No. 176 due to street-date violations.
DIY-style titles like Cards of Death and The Soultangler aren't necessarily "good" cinema, but they're a part of film history.
Ginsberg's poem Howl (1955-6) sees creativity as an ordeal akin to madness and dereliction: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …" But in the title of his poem Death to Van Gogh's Ear!, he seems to reject that cult of the "mad" artist, to mock Van Gogh's ear as an icon of creative suffering.
In a strange city called Paradiso, which shares its name with the title of the record, Death sits exalted, surrounded by defensive turrets and "pendulous" shadows mingling in creeping darkness.
