Leave it to Art Buchwald to have the ultimate last word, and it was a gag. After dying Wednesday night at 81, Buchwald was the first to have a video obit in the New York Times: "Hi, I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died."
1)Art Buchwald was one of the great American humorists. He delighted inskeweringthe powerful and thepompous. ※skew =斜め、傾斜、それる、曲がる、横目で見る pompous =もったいぶった、気取った、仰々しい、尊大な
2)Landing a column at The Herald Tribune took all of the young Buchwald's wit and charm.
3)In 1962, Buchwald gave up his comfortable expat life to chronicle Washington politics.
4)Buchwald surprised friends and doctors alike as he turned his "deathbed" into a lively social circuit.
"Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly as I had planned it," begins Buchwald in what may or may not be his final book.
In February 2006, Buchwald was told he would need ongoingdialysis, which he promptly decided to discontinue, moving into a Washington hospice to die on his own terms. ※dialysis =《医》透析、透析法、透析療法
What was intended to be a three-week exit for the Pulitzer Prize-winning author turned into months of visitors,ruminationand writing. ※rumination =反すう、黙考
The result is this hilarious, sobering and unconventional study of the issues that accompany the end of life, such as living wills andsurrogates, funerals, food and even sex. ※surrogate=代理人、《法律》(NY州などの)遺言検認判事
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Message from the grave Goodbye, Artie "I made them laugh" The unsinkable Art Buchwald