This year it's the 200th anniversary of an unmitigated failure, which pushed the artist into the withdrawn state of his later years, and set him on the way to almost a century of oblivion.
In New York at least, for life support to be withdrawn, state law requires "clear and convincing" evidence that the patient would not want such treatment.
That effort received a major boost on Wednesday when Mr. Corzine and State Senator Raymond Lesniak of Union County announced that they would attempt to raise $30 million in private funds to make up for the withdrawn state loan.
Even the ridiculous sight of Simona slipping off her silk gown in the bar's picture window -- a sight sure to increase tourist traffic on the Ramblas in Barcelona -- doesn't shake him out of his withdrawn state.
On Thursday, Mr. Christie, a Republican, withdrew state support for the project — known as Access to the Region's Core, or ARC — saying that it would cost New Jersey at least $2.5 billion more than expected and that the state could not afford the escalating total.
Court decisions have suggested that these promises cannot be withdrawn; states may not even be able to limit the future accrual of pension rights by existing workers.
The court has also been asked to hear cases about Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California, and an Arizona measure that withdrew state benefits from both gay and straight domestic partners.
But last December, after President Leonid Kuchma issued the most sweeping land reform decree to date, privatizing all communes, dividing the ownership of the land equally among the commune members and withdrawing state support, a whole new opportunity opened up for Mr. Sluga's April Farm enterprise, named for the month it was started.
The government's legal aid body was today accused of acting as "judge and jury" by withdrawing state funding from a test case by families of disabled children against a pharmaceutical company.
Meanwhile, the Santos campaign has allegedly threatened to withdraw state subsidies for those who don't support his rallies.
The government does not resile from the accusation that it seeks to withdraw state funding from the university sector.
