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Sports columnists declared the old guard dead, lamenting the Broncos' traditional season-ending choke and celebrating the demise of the Cowboys, widely attributed to their dissolute lifestyle.
(For a head start on the satire, check out the work of Slate necro-economists and .) But the true import of the new "death penalty" is the demise of the old one.
He bursts in on his estranged daughter (Melora Walters) with news of his imminent demise, but the addled girl for some reason (three guesses) won't have anything to do with him.
After a young female reporter whom Everett has plied with drink crashes her car on something called Dead Man's Curve, the former New York hotshot is forced to fill in at a "human interest" interview with Frank Beachum (Washington) a mere eight hours before his scheduled San Quentin demise.
We shall have to wait and see if the changes of Margaret Thatcher's political fortunes are reflected in the language as spoken in Britain, for one might be tempted to infer that the assertiveness of her tenure was partly responsible for the demise of the subjunctive in contrary-to-fact constructions--at least in those perceived by her to be contrary to what she perceived as fact.