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The flyby was an important part of Cassini's last act.
It would be his last act in a Reds uniform.
"It's the last act of a dying mentality," she said.
Finally, Alessia Cara, the night's last act before Grande, came out.
Titan has been one of Cassini's priorities during this last act.
Her last act came at the end of school on Tuesday.
LIMA (Reuters) - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's critics call it his last act.
If only the poet could write this last act of forgetting.
In his last act, he stuck his head in his mouth.
"He added, "This is far from her last act in politics.
The last act imagined a world in which Hillary Clinton was president.
Today she did it – in her last act as Fed Chair. pic.twitter.
That is, traditionally, the final roll of the dice, the last act.
But the last act has them quick-change their objects of desire.
The film's last act sees James and Sandler defend their marriage in court.
"It's when you still have that whole last act — " Her voice trailed off.
I really thought (The Huffington Post) was going to be my last act.
The Bronx-born rapper was the last act of the night before headliner Migos.
Or could the last act of the 115th Congress be another run at repeal?
" The statement characterized the legal action as "the last act of a desperate woman.
"No," Yusuf said, and laughed lightly at this—his last act as a politician.
As good as "La La Land" is throughout, the last act elevates the movie considerably.
In one last act of good heartedness, Madison convinces Violet to give Tate another chance.
But, as always, the writers of this show won me over in the last act.
His last act was to shield his wife from the blasts, his family said. Mrs.
And one last act that ensured the survivors would never get their day in court.
No vote has been scheduled and the last act was passed by Congress in March.
Missandei's final word was her last act to serve her queen, and she chose it carefully.
Someone in their last act who has nothing to lose by accepting an offer from Trump.
Her last act was always to put the original aside and read through in English only.
If Nova's outburst was uncharacteristic, it may also have been his last act as a Yankee.
It was her last act at the Fed; hours later she finished her four-year term.
And here unfolded the last act of the drama: the eventual emergence of anti-anti-Communism.
The pacing of the action scenes is poor, and they're mostly shoved into the last act.
And yet this last act costs Cersei her truest love and best ally: her brother, Jaime.
With the last act of season 1 finale "Free," the drama finally shows all of its cards.
"It was my last act of recruitment—getting everyone in my family to come home," he said.
In her last act, Lily transcends her mistakes, and I've never managed to read it without sobbing.
In the movie's last act, Chiron goes to prison and ends up becoming a drug dealer himself.
The balance of all of that in the last act of the film was a ton of fun.
On Tuesday, Coughlin's last act in what he called his dream job was another emotional, high-energy oration.
For the most part, though, the action hums along, instilling renewed emotional heft in the film's last act.
Previous to Bowie, the last act to do so was Adele on the chart dated March 3, 83.
I was already spent, but Zack talked me into one last act of rage: smashing something mid-air.
"In the last act, instead of a lament, they sing this sort of ecstatic love duet," he said.
Paul Ryan, in one of his last acts, perfect last act for him, goes along with it. Right.
And it's obvious by the movie's crushing last act that Esmail hasn't thought this all the way through.
Dying will be her last act as a parent; her last request, that her children let her go.
The former Exxon executive's last act in office was to also condemn Russia over the nerve agent attack.
Those sections, called Last Act, have helped Macy's clear through dated inventory quicker and at better prices, Hoguet said.
"What's the Matter with Kansas?" is a deceptively simple episode that reveals layers of complexity in its last act.
Along with the end of Warped, it felt like the fitting last act of an era: bittersweet, but necessary.
Four months later, it is looking more like the last act of "Hamlet", such is the rising body count.
Cameron's true last act as prime minister is abandoning a helpless animal that he hates, which is oddly fitting.
Let's flash back 11 months to Kai's last act as a free man: the Night of a Thousand Tates.
The film's last act is a tragic free fall as the inevitable executions are carried out one by one.
He couldn't have known it at the time, but Puig's last act in Cincinnati would be defending his pitcher.
It was the last act of madness Sabina Eriksson would commit—though certainly not the end of the madness.
In the last act, Ms. Buratto was exquisite in Liù's aria when she sacrifices herself on behalf of Calaf.
For his last act, can the N.B.A. legend have a hand in fixing the Clippers once and for all?
Miller Huggins' last act was practically a plea to Ruppert to clean house because the players had stopped caring.
It wasn't like one of those where the killer is suddenly revealed in the last act and you go, 'Oh!
The last act of "Playtest" becomes too much of an existential nesting doll, much like the end of Vanilla Sky.
The rain falls, the two lovers embrace, but we never get to see a scene from the last act again.
She tries to convince them, in the last act, to finally concede that the world does not revolve around them.
"They said they wanted to reflect the son they knew and weren't trying to "minimize horror of his last act.
This last act before the spacecraft disintegrated allowed the instruments to precisely measure the amount of material in Saturn's rings.
The last act of "Manon Lescaut" absurdly takes place in what is described as a vast arid plain outside New Orleans.
"That sea wall, where they have you see in the last act of the film, is on Sepulveda Boulevard," said Green.
What we know for sure is the final two weeks of September promise at least one last act for Obamacare repeal.
But with her last act, she showed us who she was: a woman devoted to her children, to the very end.
Readers don't even know their names — Frances, called Franny, and Bridget, known as Jet — until late in that novel's last act.
How does he avoid the last act of both McCain and Kerry ultimately failing to capture the White House in November?
Only in the last act, as Joel's life devolves into disaster, does the action speed up enough to match the plot.
She keeps the flowers Joaquin gave her last Valentine's Day—his "last act of love," she calls them— in a vase.
President Trump's self-inflicted shutdown before Christmas has left Republicans with a debacle as their last act in control of the House.
In her last act of organizing for the day, Li ensures they make a dinner reservation for the evening—for hot pot.
He changed locations (making the last act the same as the first), the ages of characters (to fit casting) and so forth.
The last act, though, is a total whiff — too rushed, too riddled with plot holes and too incongruously hopeful to take seriously.
She is already virginal and spends the last act of "Camp Redwood" being terrorized by the serial killer no one else sees.
In its last act, it wants to move from self-criticism and atonement to a spirit of tikkun olam, repairing the world.
Called Last Act, these areas make deals simple to understand by using a clearly marked price tag and prohibiting the use of coupons.
He tells Jong-soo that his next target is nearby, and that it has been two months since his last act of arson.
The last act of "Parsifal," for instance, usually comes as a pious unfolding of the liturgy, but here it was volatile, unstable, dark.
It would be the last act of a 29-year law enforcement veteran described as hardworking and dedicated and, now, as a hero.
"She has a surge of life in her, right before she dies," Mr. Mayer noted of her final moments in the last act.
In his last act as governor, Walker signed a series of lame-duck bills reducing the power of newly elected Democratic Party officials statewide.
The voice that distinguished the early sections turns passive and awkward, reappearing only intermittently until the last act, in which we discover Paul's fate.
"This is the last act of Epstein's manipulation of the system, even in death," said attorney Jennifer Freeman, who represents child sex abuse victims.
He's Tinkerbell in the last act of a Peter Pan play, being brought back to life by love, or at least a reasonable approximation.
But Miller explained that it was probably the best chance he had for living the last act of his life the way he wanted.
Instead the last act reinvents itself as a series of setpiece missions, long cutscenes, and boss battles that feel at odds with what's come before.
From concern to chaos Aldean was the headliner, the last act on the last day of the sold-out Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
More police arrive, and, as a last act of defiance, the women dole out the homemade Earth-shaped cookies they've brought along for the protest.
Shortly after voting in India comes to a close on Sunday, the curtain will inch up the last act of the largest election in history.
Partly because of Irving's absence, and partly because of Durant's presence, this latest (and perhaps last) act of Warriors-Cavaliers did not provide much drama.
But replays showed Zidane racing toward the defender following an exchange of words and felled him with his head — his last act as a professional player.
NASA says on the project website that the spacecraft will collect "incredibly rich" information in its last act that the original planners might never have imagined.
Black Widow's last act was to sacrifice herself so that Barton could live, take the soul stone back to their time and reunite with his family.
For Carvaly, it's one last act of kindness and dignity she gets to be a part of; for Doughty it's her life's work come to fruition.
His last act was to release an open letter which castigated the British authorities for investigating his wife for helping him to make his final journey.
In the last act of "Alone," Bruno Mars protype and superstar Shy calls Midge to ask her to open for him during his upcoming European tour.
On the not-as-bright side, it falls apart in the last act and is still by far the best of the series' first four episodes.
In announcing his passing, family members said that he did not suffer pain, and as a last act after death, he donated his corneas for transplant.
The new account of Sergeant Chapman's last act reopens old wounds for SEAL Team 6, the elite Navy unit that would later kill Osama bin Laden.
You can set your watch to what happens to Stella's best friend (Moises Arias), also a patient, and the last act is a supernova of shamelessness.
But it's what precedes that last act that will largely determine how you feel about Death Stranding, a game of rich mundanity in a newly-haunted world.
Some spoilers from this point forward To be frank, I do think Prey's last act only really works if you've explored and completed side-quests pretty extensively.
But let's be honest: The most exciting part about the episode's last act is Jane agreeing that it might be time to re-evaluate her virginity promise.
Without giving too much away, the last act actually involves a detour to a movie theater where the gang -- their relationships frayed -- find the means to reconcile.
The last act of the summit will be a discussion between the remaining 27 -- with the British Prime Minister excluded -- over the next steps for the negotiations.
In any case, the moral ambiguities that animate the film's last act are less intriguing than the world it depicts on the way to an overwrought climax.
Plant-based eggs, nuggets and burgers are far less likely to hasten the inevitable last act of the Age of Man than the food sources they replace.
Its last act is essentially a single set piece about a severely dysfunctional family at dinner, with battling brothers fighting for the approval of a damaged patriarch.
We hope that our last act, the giving away of our possessions and assets, will bring joy to the people we love in a time of sorrow.
It was his last act after clocking up a fantastic record of 15-3 in the amateur ranks, especially when you consider how young he began competing at.
Played out in stubby forms, alternately rough and virtuosic surfaces, and a radiant palette heavy on red, pink, black and orange, this last act seemed to have everything.
It's the world's longest audition, and it's only in the last act that you realize what the real stakes are and the nature of what you're truly fighting.
But the last act of the movie is pretty great, and it helps explain why Carol Danvers is a hero that will hopefully turn the tide against Thanos.
In a statement tweeted out with the hashtag #ResignKim, the union called the lawsuit "the last act of a desperate woman" and decried her performance as district attorney.
In the last act, Colline, the philosopher, sings a farewell to his overcoat, his one valuable possession, which he intends to sell to get money for the dying Mimi.
Russian officials have portrayed the sanctions as a last act of a lame-duck president and suggested Trump could reverse them when he takes over from Obama, a Democrat.
In a last act of defiance, Ofglen No. 1 slips into a car at the open market in full view of Commander's wives, guards and even handmaids like Offred.
"It is fitting--and sad--that the very last act of the Obama DOJ is for the acting AG to defy the newly elected POTUS," Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Now, with its latest patch for the last act of Shadowbringers, it is questioning the individualism and narrative foundations that lie under the surface of the entire RPG genre.
Apostle occasionally seems entirely over the top — the last-act conflict degenerates into a particularly gory mess that seems gratuitous after the sadder, stranger, more human battles that precede it.
" It's pretty awesome ... Hayley noticed the fan was singing along all night and decided to bring her up for the last act and rock out to the hit "Misery Business.
The smile Viola Davis gives one of her costars in the last act is heartstopping because it's so hard-won, one of the few genuine expressions of warmth in the movie.
After the Lannister troops stormed King's Landing during the last act of Robert's Rebellion, the erratic, unstable King Aerys II Targaryen was killed by Jaime Lannister, a member of his Kingsguard.
Zidane's other attribute, his last act on a world stage, was his notorious head-butt into the chest of Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy.
"I love it when Cap'n Andy says in the last act, 'The lucky people are the ones that get to do what they enjoy doin','" Mr. McMartin told The Chicago Tribune.
Ferguson, Jr., is a living link to arguably the most famous MMA fighter to date, whose last act in an insane career of punching faces for money took place in Bellator.
Russian officials have portrayed the U.S. sanctions as a last act of a lame-duck president and suggested that Trump could reverse them when he takes over the White House in January.
In the last act of the film, Nora announces that she cut a deal with Charlie's lawyers that gives Nicole custody 55 percent of the time whenever Charlie is visiting Los Angeles.
" The response: Abbott's deputy communications director Ciara Matthews told the Chronicle: "[I]t's not surprising that his last act would be to stick taxpayers with the bill at the worst possible time.
They develop an odd, culturally freighted relationship — the senescent past reconciling itself to Europe's future — until the last act blows up the script's character-building for the sake of a shock ending.
He's a grieving widower — his last act before breaking free from his Secret Service protectors is to stare lovingly at a photo of his wife taken shortly before she died of cancer.
So what we're seeing here is supposed to be the last act in a long con, the moment when the fraudsters cash in, and their victims discover how completely they've been fooled.
Anile was in a green room within New York City's Lincoln Center during the last act of the show when Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko became too sick to continue singing, the AP reports.
Huffington, 66, made the announcement on Twitter, saying that she'll step down as HuffPo's editor-in-chief to run the new venture, named Thrive Global:  I thought HuffPost would be my last act.
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the head of the United States Central Command who oversaw the operation in Syria, said Mr. al-Baghdadi's last act of killing children along with himself spoke for itself.
By the time Jon Voight walked past the building's facade in the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy," Heckler's flea circus — apparently the last act of its kind in the United States — had packed up.
While the last act provides a thundering articulation of this moment in the feminist movement, it's hard not to wish there was a bit more of that in the stately build-up to it.
But the challenge escalates so swiftly in the last act of The Banner Saga 3 that it felt like I'd run out of runway for learning to command such an unusual array of characters.
Blankson-Wood What we witness in that last act is a true exorcism of our racist and violent history in America within their relationship, and I don't think you can come back from that.
Experts say if that happens, the battle for Idlib could be the last act of a seven-year civil war that has reduced much of Syria to ruins and killed an estimated 400,000 people.
As the narrative progresses, though, there's a nagging sense that the payoff might not be the equal of the jump-out-at-you thrills, a concern borne out, largely, by the movie's last act.
The characters don't have conversations so much as helpfully recite their back stories, and the long-buried secret is soon so obvious that the movie's last-act hysteria feels forced and a little ridiculous.
Everyone on the panel has finished A Way Out so it's time for some final thoughts on the game overall before we dive into a spoiler-rich discussion of the last act and different endings.
Thomson's daughter at varying points berates his play as a vanity project and maybe plants the idea for his (SPOILER ALERT) last-act botched suicide attempt by explaining the concept of viral notoriety to him.
As Dumbledore later says, Grindelwald was meant to have felt remorse towards the end of his life; and indeed, with his last act, he chooses to protect Dumbledore's allies by lying about the Elder Wand.
Another reason the Chinese give for their unwillingness to tighten the screw on the regime is that they fear its imminent collapse could result in a last act of suicidal nuclear defiance by Mr Kim.
If conventional burial all but ensured your last act on Earth was a destructive one, these green efforts often capitalize on the belief that your body can become "nutritive," Olson, the Virginia Tech ethicist, says.
But with Richardson in charge of the sale, his last act as the owner of the team that he founded may be to decide to pick, say, a local ownership group with a lower bid.
His visit to Butler's apartment at the "Pink Houses" to have his hair braided in preparation for a visit to his mother in Florida with his young daughter would be his last act on this Earth.
Mr. Wheeler's last act as chairman could be overseeing the review of AT&T's $85 billion bid for Time Warner, a mega-media deal that has already elicited protests from some politicians and consumer advocacy groups.
So when the tables turn on the foreigners in the last act, the string of kills that ensue come not just with the satisfaction of well-executed suspense but also of the exhilaration of the role reversal.
In the last act of Passengers, Chris Pratt's character, Jim, realizes that the robot doctor thing in the ship's infirmary doubles as a hibernation pod, and he suggests that Jennifer Lawrence's character, Aurora, should get in it.
This not-so-easily definable contemporary Southern story has gone on to grace nearly every "Best Of" list this year, and if it hasn't made it to your bookshelf, then that should be your last act of 2016.
They also called on the prime minister to resign and said his last act before doing so should be to replace the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General for failing to act over their mother's claims of corruption.
The second-to-last act found the audience coaxed into dance by singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed "pop prodigy" Black Gatsby, who ascended the stage donning a black brimmed hat and sequined pants after a year-long hiatus.
These role-actor pairings are laid atop a text that features angry banishings and royal deaths; battles between England and the Roman Empire; and, rather abruptly in the last act, happy endings for reunited young lovers and family.
The ending suggests a sequel, which I hope comes about; the book's last act is full of revelations (as it were) about the especially strange nature of Lizbet's world that I'm keen to see Schoffstall develop and explore.
I'll never forget my cousin Donnie, who had a good job at a GM supplier, telling me that his last act on the job after he was laid off was to unbolt his machine and ship it to China.
And you can almost feel Hickman's sigh of relief by the last act, as he concludes a story that's been a major part of his life for the past few years (he's now taking a deserved break from Marvel).
And while he may not win the August 28 primary, the race—perhaps the last act in his tumultuous political career—says a lot about how much the Democrats have evolved in the decade since he first entered politics.
But the last act in this tragedy can only be performed by the Venezuelans, knowing that the sooner they and their armed forces evict the thieves, the sooner the world will pitch in to help them recover their lives.
Crime Scene It is as iconic an image from the criminal underworld as the Tommy gun or the getaway car, a grim last act for the unfortunate soul whose life is about to end in a new pair of footwear.
The vote was parliament's last act before Boris Johnson suspended it until mid-OctoberMPs also voted to force Downing Street to hand over private communications between officials which relate to Johnson's decision to shut down parliament, which opponents have called undemocratic.
In Hotel Strindberg, the psychopathology of Strindberg's interactions with women is reflected in the deeply unhappy relations of different couples, all of whom are breaking up in nasty ways: divorce, possible homicide, or rape as the last act in a marriage.
The house, located in Tomales, California, was the setting of the Wes Craven film's last act in which Ghostface, the notorious killer who terrorized residents of Woodsboro, hunts down his victims one by one while they're at a house party.
The dialogue erupts like the rapid firing of a machine gun, blowing past jokes that kill nonetheless; its message is similarly murdered in the show's last act, but by the end of Season 1 that does seem to be the point.
Witness the last act of Mr. Zinke when he was still in Congress; along with fellow Republicans, he voted for a rules package that makes it easier for the federal government to transfer public lands to state, local or private entities.
In the past two years, the struggling department store chain has launched an outlet store called Macy's Backstage, added dedicated "Last Act" clearance sections to stores, and said it would add more self-service systems to its beauty and shoe sections.
It lost direction in the last act, in part because it was so beholden to Scorsese and the original Joker character — it kept drifting toward those poles in ways that felt generic or disjointed, instead of playing to the strengths it had established.
In order to experience the full power of Nanette's last act, in which Gadsby deliberately stops being funny, we need to experience the context of her first act, complete with acknowledging her non-normative physical appearance, which gradually becomes a major subject.
When they finally reached Fort George, at the tip of Manhattan, they discovered the British had committed one last act of defiance: they had nailed the Union Jack atop the flagpole, which they had afterward stripped and greased, preventing an easy removal.
The last act tries to bring together commentary and character study: after descending into desperate violence, Fleck appears on TV and delivers a manifesto about class and society writ large, then he suddenly finds he's the inspirational hero of a clown-based violent protest movement.
I explained the situation to the woman who answered the phone, though all the time I was aware that Miles would not be eligible because he was not able to express his intention to end his life or to undertake the last act himself.
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - Lionel Messi blasted a penalty over the bar in what looks like being his last act in international football as Chile beat Argentina in a shootout to win the Copa America for the second year in a row on Sunday.
But his vanity and his callousness cause him to ignore Eliza's agency, which causes a serious breach with her in the last act of the play, where they have to reckon with their own relationship and the real consequences of the project they've successfully completed.
It fits this season, which has been a catalog of loss: Nina, summarily shot after a last act of conscience; Martha, mercifully and horribly shuttled to a chilly life of loneliness; even Agent Gaad, killed for nothing in a botched K.G.B. operation in his Thai hotel.
"Following Mario Draghi's last act as the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), it is tactically easier for an outgoing central bank governor to enact an insurance cut and give the successor a clear path to establish their credibility in a measured fashion," Metcalfe added.
It should have resonated, but it was instead marked by the bloat that's defined his last act; it sounds cruel, but Undertaker should have retired after his loss to Brock Lesnar in 2014, his only other WrestleMania loss (which means you should bank on Lesnar versus Reigns next year).
Sure, the Frasers are the center of this story, but after learning about the crushing tragedy of Otter Tooth's mission and after the disaster the Frasers wrought among the Mohawk, cutting back to Brianna's labor and her inevitable reunion with Roger in the last act felt a little hollow.
And then began the long last act of his life, in which he played the role of nomadic hack, accepting paying gigs at writing workshops for which he appeared to have little but contempt, and generally undermining the notion that who he was or what he did mattered to anyone.
The committee investigating Planned Parenthood, which was formed as a last act of former Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio), has yet to meet.
"After eight long years of a lawless Obama Department of Justice, it is fitting--and sad--that the very last act of the Obama DOJ is for the Acting AG to defy the newly elected President, refuse to enforce the law, and force the President to fire her," Cruz said in a statement.
And while I think it often settles into some familiar formulas — I feel like Pixar uses a lot of extended last-act chase sequences… but maybe that's just a necessary part of making a kid-friendly climactic event — the studio always pulls it together in something that feels specific and right for the film.
Leicester's executives had known, for some time, that Simpson would leave the club when his contract expired in May 2019, and they had known that they wanted to give him and his teammate Shinji Okazaki, whose contract was also expiring, the right sort of goodbye, one last act of gratitude for all they had done.
Even in retirement, which he began in 2010 after a last act that found him turning out books at an astounding pace, Roth made his presence felt, emerging for the occasional interview to comment on the state of the world from the perspective of a New York retiree who spent his days reading books and watching old movies.
There was a Slovakian pierogi master whose last act before leaving for the United States was opening the barn doors to set her animals free; a Polish vegetarian who learned to make bigos, a meatfest of a stew, just so she could share her mother's recipe; and a Palestinian family that lives the American dream by hosting a Thanksgiving every night.
Chris Paul, in his last act as a Clipper, signed the young man's death warrant when he allowed himself to be signed and traded to the Houston Rockets; when he allowed Patrick Beverley the chance to step foot on that court last night, to fill himself with a powerful loathing that he and only he can access, and to let it loose on this poor young man.
I have no idea what the post-credits scene was about, or why there's suddenly a Dolores and a Charlotte in the final scenes, or why Stubbs is suddenly the Host Whisperer, or what exactly Emily is, or why the show devoted so much attention to Lee's last act of heroism — which so far this season has seemed like abrupt non sequiturs of loyalty-switching on his part.
That is why President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and Senate Republicans are so determined to quickly push through a nominee who would tip the balance of the Supreme Court and finish the job, all with one last act of obfuscation.
Squint hard enough to see the Manhattan skyline from your barely affordable studio apartment an hour into the outer boroughs, and you can just make out one last act of shameless groveling on the horizon:In celebration [of the winning bid for Amazon's HQ2 competition], several key New York City buildings, including the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center, along with electronic billboards and CityBridge's LinkNYC screens will light up in "Amazon Orange" tonight at 8:00 PM.New York is projected to give up 4 million square feet of prime waterfront property and close to $3 billion in state and city subsidies and incentives to one of the most valuable companies on Earth in exchange for 25,000 jobs that are likely to drive up rents and choke mass transit.

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