It shows how the activists broke out of their parochial attitude while mining communities questioned their sexual politics, and it makes a bold case that the strike was not a Light Brigade charge into oblivion, but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights generally.
Warchus's film takes us back 30 years before all this, making a defiant case that the miners' strike was not simply a Light Brigade charge into oblivion but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights, self-respect and pride.
It is the epitaph not of a man accepting oblivion but of a poet cultivating his legend from beyond the grave.
"The Bucket List" will quickly be kicked into oblivion, but, at a lifetime-achievement-award ceremony, Nicholson's tempest will fit nicely into a montage of Crazy Jack moments.
Most anti-drug PSAs are an eye-roll away from oblivion but we had an actual drug dealer (anonymously) vet the facts in a new clip out of Toronto called Cookin' With Molly, a drug-fuled send-up of cooking shows with ingredients Gordon Ramsay probably only dreams about.
History, of course, came to treat the latter as classics and consigned most of the smooth forms to oblivion, but Melody Maker was nonetheless a symbolic arrival, confirming jazz music's now unshakeable presence on the map.
I mean, obviously they can charge what they like, seeing as they rescued the format from oblivion, but still, that's a lot of money.
At such times a chap may be tempted to suck extra deep on his Pimm's cocktail and seek the consolations of drunken oblivion, but it was certainly a memorable occasion.
This may sound like a lame and early April Fool's joke and even managed to inspire the only pun-thread on HackerNews in recent memory that wasn't immediately downvoted into oblivion, but this is actually a pretty useful tool for web developers.
It was the CEO's incredible persistence (and experience) in all aspects of selling — sales organization, compensation, pipeline management, and selling skills — that not only saved Voltaire from oblivion, but eventually propelled it to a NASDAQ IPO.
It's probably little consolation for Pebble devotees who've slowly watched the hardware startup sink into oblivion, but Fitbit's offering up a good will gesture by extending support for the smartwatch's ecosystem for another six months.
