A trip to its sentimental countryside, all mustard yellow fields and lazy windmills, is as revitalising as a holiday in Provence, even if your run-ins with the locals are likely to be bloodier.
Their successors continue to fine-tune the machine: Scott Stewart, the group's chairman since 1999, has increased its operating budget from $250,000 a year to $1.4m.These young people are changing the party as well as revitalising it.
It will be a big missed opportunity if the plans do not create more vibrant places, with facilities for elderly people, jobs for the young, and new ways of enticing visitors.As well as revitalising devastated Tohoku, this public spending should benefit the whole economy in 2012.
They saw the Games as revitalising traditional English social life, and they countered opposition from the critics of such events, who complained of "drunken behaviour and sexual licence", by stressing the "peaceful and well-behaved" nature of the occasion, and even praising the Games as "a gesture of loyalty to the king".
Ivory Coast, as ever, will fancy staying a long time, as will Cameroon, revitalised after a disastrous World Cup.
London's neighbourhoods can be revitalised, as are other European cities, to higher densities without the visual bruising of point blocks.
Many fans now consider Craig's portrayal of the suave spy as having revitalised the Bond series.
Today's Barcelona is the product of Pasqual Maragall, who in 15 years as mayor revitalised the post-Franco city.
Tech entrepreneur Dougald Hine has a sideline deploying local bohemia to revive moribund retail outlets, such as the revitalised Brixton Arcade.
But because no candidate won an outright majority, the two men will face each other in a run-off on November 16th, and if that contest is close, the expat vote could be important.Mr Iohannis is an ethnic German widely seen as having revitalised Sibiu.
Even worse news came in October as a revitalised French army swept into Germany and annexed all of the Metternich estates except Königswart.
