BILL HICKS, a chain-smoking comedian, loved to ridicule the "eternal-life fantasy" of the non-smokers in his audience.
The same was true – for much sharper political reasons – for Chinese exiles in postwar Taiwan: the 1963 musical melodrama Qi Cai Hu Bu Gui (The Love Eternal), with its fantasy version of the pre-communist motherland, was an enormous hit; it stuck with a young Ang Lee, who fed off it when he made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The video clip was included in a bonus DVD for Unlimited Saga Collector's Edition under the name Eternal Calm, Final Fantasy X-2: Prologue.
From 1991 to 1992, Kadokawa Shoten's Famicom gaming magazine, Maru Katsu Famicom published Legend of the Eternal Wind, from Final Fantasy III, a manga serialization of Final Fantasy III illustrated by Yu Kinutani.
Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
Life in Israel today makes one long for a naked public square: politics without God, without myth and fantasy, without eternal enemies, without sacred causes or holy ground.
(With "A.I". the director at last acknowledged that the fantasy of eternal childhood can have tragic and terrible consequences, a moral the public did not wish to hear).
Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham, creators of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, have moved on to Eternal Law (ITV1), a fantasy featuring heavenly attorneys turning up in York.
Unstable teenagers with fearsome psychic gifts play key roles in each, and Mr. De Palma showed an older brother's affinity for the adolescent sensibility; "Carrie," starring Sissy Spacek, became a landmark film for its fulfillment of that eternal high school boys' fantasy to see what goes on beyond the doors of the girls' locker room.
Although Yuna's quest is to find clues that may lead her to Tidus, much of the storyline of the game follows the clash of the factions that have established themselves in the time since the coming of the Eternal Calm in Final Fantasy X, and the uncovering of hidden legacies from Spira's ancient history.
