Year after year those elaborate concoctions sit in the freezer until I've gone through the entire batch of classic basil and pine nuts, because as good as the more experimental kinds may be, there are few things that brighten up a dreary winter's evening more than the grassy, summer scent of basil and garlic emanating from a bowl of steaming hot pasta.
Still, every few years a fresh batch of new classics emerges: pieces that may have started as faddish sartorial extras but then -- because of popular demand, durable chic, surprising utility or some combination thereof -- settle in to become collection staples season after season.
He can underwrite a cable television network to extend the Yankees' domination of regional airwaves, but he can't order up a whole new batch of World Series classics to rerun all winter.
If you know how those things work then click here and you'll end up with some exclusive new tracks, a batch of Boys Noize classics, some fancy artwork and a couple of live sets.
A batch from another writer of classics, not yet announced, is in the works for summer.
Step beyond that timeframe and instances are more scattered (Alan Clarke's Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Peter Chelsom's Funny Bones, the Liverpudlian section of Alex Cox's Three Businessmen) before the next batch of adaptations of literary classics and airbrushed feel-goods for the American market.
MR: When you look at that classic batch of songs, are there any that really jump out at you as great songs?
Some of the most acclaimed modern movies come in threes, and Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a batch of these trilogies, ranging from American classics (Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" series) to foreign entries (Krzysztof Kieślowski's "Three Colors" and Abbas Kiarostami's Koker trilogy, which includes "Through the Olive Trees").
Crowds wrapped around the Michigan Avenue Niketown, where the first batch of re-issues of Jordan's classic "Concord" sneaker went on sale at Midnight Friday, NBC Chicago reports.
The reinvention of classics.
