Life is dead.
Life, the legendary weekly magazine, died back in 1972, victim of a fatal financial hemorrhage. So Isolde Motley, Life's last editor, is standing in the hallway outside her office in Manhattan's Time-Life Building, looking at the wall where she has tacked up photos she is considering for Life's last issue, due out today. She paces the hallway, studying the photographs. Motley smiles at that one. She picks one off the wall.