The dead man, revived, touches the mourners, who vanish.
In Nothing Ever Happened, Cox truncates his chorus to a furious yelp of "life just crashed", and it becomes a lightning-flash reminder of the car accident he was involved in late last year; when the song bleeds imperceptibly into a roaring cover of Patti Smith's Horses, he sings with the fury of a man revived.
His works included hundreds of essays; the best-selling novels Lincoln and Myra Breckenridge; the groundbreaking The City and the Pillar, among the first novels about openly gay characters; and the Tony-nominated political drama The Best Man, revived on Broadway in 2012.
First, it creates a straw man, reviving the notion, now defunct, of the Dark Ages.
On "Las Flores de la Vida" (World Circuit/Nonesuch), Compay Segundo, whose nickname, "Compadre Second," comes from his career of singing not lead but lower harmony with another man, revives a courtly style in which the men's self-pity is answered by pairs of gently chiding clarinets.
30 March Otley Courthouse; 31 March, The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness; then touring John-Luke Roberts In one of the more eye-catching shows on last year's Edinburgh fringe, the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society man revives his dark, demented and unsentimental take on the "dead dad" comedy set.
The chances of the great man reviving his 2009 partnership with Jamie Roberts appear to be diminishing fast, however.
Will Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Ruto, two of Kenya's wealthiest men, revive the economy, reduce poverty and corruption, resettle displaced persons and prioritize the interests of ordinary Kenyans?
In the past week alone, the casualty list in professional tennis has grown at a frightening rate, particularly for the men, reviving concerns about whether players can physically cope with their nearly year-round schedule.
During my one-hour session, I surfed alongside pre-teen sisters in matching wetsuits, a world champion wakesurfer, and middle-aged men reviving a former pastime as a new exercise regime.
MADRID — A Spanish judge has reopened an abandoned sexual assault case against a Saudi prince who is one of the world's richest men, reviving accusations that he raped a 20-year-old model on a luxury yacht in the Spanish Mediterranean in August 2008.
