Winehouse's death comes after the singer's disastrous return to performing last month when she played a much-publicized show in Serbia which went horribly wrong.

Unless we begin to operate as a united industry and impose a voluntary reduction on crop planting it is difficult to see anything other than another year of disastrous returns.

Then came the 80's and "the world of white," a conviction for cocaine possession and a disastrous return to filmmaking with "The Cotton Club" (1984).

He was understandably reluctant to cash the diamond ace, and made the disastrous return of a heart.

Troy was very sure that such a move on his part would see Zul's summoning of the nearest patroller, his own ignominious and disastrous return to the Dipple.

Essex wrote of him as a " dear and worthy friend " and chose him as one of his few companions on his disastrous return to Court.

Imagine, if you dare, Aeschylus's "Agamemnon," the tale of the disastrous return of an arrogant king to his family after the Trojan War, reconceived as a blithe contemporary mini-series for HBO.

He had been in the desert for over a week before his last disastrous return to Indian Springs.

Was this not, they wondered, a quite disastrous return to the past, a toppling over of the (admittedly partly justified) reaction against Liberal Theology into sheer traditionalism?

It is, however, the story of an émigré family's escape from Russia, a young man's education in England, and his (perhaps) disastrous return to the nation of his birth-the "feat" of the novel's Russian title.