Aug. 31, 12:13 p.m.: An earlier version of
this obituary reported that Davis died in Los Angeles.
The Post
obituary reported, «She had severe health problems in recent years, including back surgeries and a gallbladder operation that left her in a coma for more than a week.»
Just before the woman was to be sentenced, the local newspaper published the phony
obituary reporting her death and cremation.
Not exact matches
But then - Governor George Pataki thought the design morbid, declaring that «there's no goddamn way I'm going to build those skeletons,» as the New York Times
reported in their
obituary on Mr. Schwartz.
Slaughter and her husband moved to western New York in the 1950s and entered politics 20 years later after battling to preserve a forest near the Rochester suburbs, the paper
reported in an
obituary.
THE
obituary has been written many times, but, until now,
reports of the Great Barrier Reef's death have been exaggerated.
On being told that his
obituary had been published, Mark Twain quipped, «The
report of my death was an exaggeration.»
Why is the health care crisis I read about in the newspaper at my grandmother's
obituary from 1976 (
reporting her as the first female bartender in Olympia) not improved but worsened?
June 2, 1897 — Upon seeing his
obituary prematurely published in the New York Herald (almost 13 years before he died) Mark Twain penned his famous quip, «
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.»
It happened, according to a recent article on CNN, to actor Jeff Goldblum who, in a promotional coup, was given the opportunity to read his own
obituary on «The Colbert
Report.»
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Through the years I've studied various writing and
reporting disciplines and have built a career writing papers, press releases, announcements, speeches, toasts, newsletters and
obituaries.
Now it's my closing tribute to Mrs. Roosevelt that I write their final health
report - which, in this case, would be their
obituary...» A quick learner and an avid student of history, Jack becomes Miss Volker's friend, scribe, and protégé: «You need to know the history of this town because if it dies out someone will have to be around to write the obit.»
This is from Stenbeck's
obituary in the annual
report 2002:
It contains news, opinion, letters, scientific reviews and original research papers and communications on a wide range of veterinary topics, along with disease surveillance
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obituaries, careers information, business and innovation news and summaries of research papers in other journals.
The Americans had broken away from the European and especially French tradition of modern painting, or, in the period language, «the tasteful cookery of oil pigment, the direct backing of the Old Masters and all precedence of rules», as Hess wrote in his
obituary of Kline.50 As is recorded in one of the news
reports of the acrimonious exchange between Fautrier and Kline at the Venice Biennale of 1960, when Fautrier pronounced an insult to the effect of «U.S. Go Home!»
In a way this
report may well go down as the
Obituary for the G8 way of global organisation â a last gasp in the face of overwhelming odds.
As Mark Twain said after reading his own
obituary, the
report of this death has been greatly exaggerated.
Even after Microsoft
reported record earnings a few days ago, one of its former executives has effectively written the company's
obituary in a NYT op - ed piece.