The operation is to be the start of her new life; what Rhoda doesn't realise is that James has foretold her untimely end in her first paragraph.
But his hunting instinct kicks in when other members of the model's entourage also come to untimely ends, suggesting more devious motives and more than one killer.
The American phrase 'water cooler television', or our own more quaint 'village pump' television can be properly applied to Big Brother, which is the biggest talking point in popular culture since Princess Di met her untimely end.
The long road to Broadway for "Curtains" has been nearly as fraught as that of "Robbin' Hood," the show-within-the-show that keeps losing cast and crew members to untimely ends during an out-of-town tryout in Boston.
In 1988 Francis Ford Coppola's film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" told, in Hollywood fashion, the story of the Tucker '48's fevered gestation, enthusiastic reception and untimely end.
are writ with this ayme, and carryed with this methode, to teach their subjects obedience to their king, to shew the people the untimely ends of such as have moved tumults, commotions, and insurrections, to present them with the flourishing estate of such as live in obedience, exhorting them to allegeance, dehorting them from all trayterous and fellonious stratagems.
The racing scene is littered with victims of drug habits: Northern California's accomplished jockey Ron Hansen also met a bizarre, untimely end, most probably drug-related; Southern California's Kentucky Derby winner Pat Valenzuela is thankfully still with us, but will probably never be permitted to ride again because of repeated substance violations.
His aunt persuades him away from the tree, and tells him a story about Kass, a little pig that had once been passenger on the same German boat as she, and had met his untimely end when they needed fresh pork.
But before her untimely end, she had already lost a lot of hair.
Perhaps ritually sacrificed, possibly eaten, seven turkeys met their untimely ends more than 2000 years ago and more than 400 miles from their native range in Central Mexico.
