Nearly wiped out during the Korean War in the 1950s, Pyongyang was rebuilt in subsequent decades as a sort of model socialist city, with drab, imposing buildings and a significant amount of green space.
Listen, I'm like you: I thought that vloggers were a phase, like Tazos or the AIDS crisis, that it would pass and we would forget about them and look back on them in a decade with a sort of detached nostalgic fondness, a sort of, 'Heh: what were we thinking?' type deal.
The men appeared off and on in commercials for decades, first as a sort of goofy Greek chorus that materialized in settings like an elderly woman's living room or the Garden of Eden and then, more recently, as musicians in comically sappy music videos.
With the spread of the news, this town has spent a decade basking in a sort of Stone Age fever.
Lloyd Grove, a reporter who has covered the Clintons on and off for two decades, has commented before on "a sort of Chelsea omerta… a cloud of non-disclosure".
In this role, he journeyed charmingly around the world for radio and television across three decades, from Scandinavia to Argentina – a sort of Bill Bryson on a bike.
In recent months, dioceses around the world have been offering Catholics a spiritual benefit that fell out of favor decades ago -- the indulgence, a sort of amnesty from punishment in the afterlife -- and reminding them of the church's clout in mitigating the wages of sin.
Now largely forgotten, he was a star of the first decade of the 20th century, a sort of Progressive Era Tom Wolfe — right down to his white suits that set him apart in the newspaper offices where he first made his mark.
Solid if unsurprising travelogue, which lays out the familar Cuban cliches early – fading colonial architecture, raffish revolutionary romance, vintage American cars, rum, cigars – before establishing the reason for its existence: the emergence of a new Cuba, slowly resigning itself to the economic failure of its decades of communism, and gingerly embracing a sort of elementary capitalism.
