Legend has it that he will return again one day, perhaps in the not too distant future, when the world is once more in need of a good conquering.
Once, desperately in need of time away from the internet, I flew to Vegas with my best friend, rented a Mustang convertible and did a seven-day loop that included Palm Springs, Flagstaff, the Grand Canyon and parts of old Route 66. Once, over the course of five weeks, I drove the entire perimeter of the country.
One wall text in the exhibition laments, "The 'common man,' once so in need of a superhero to protect and defend him against urban corruption and the forces of evil, was now living comfortably in a middle-class American suburb".
These big complicated thoughts are more easily and comfortably pondered in my armchair than on the doorsteps of my house when the young man shows up late for our appointment but once again in need of help.
And, while all auction properties were once derelict places in need of severe renovation, these days private sellers with nicely turned-out homes are risking a sale by auction.
With 86 runs between them in 10 innings the England opening pair have scarcely given the middle order room for manoeuvre and, at 33 for three, England were in trouble once more and in need of one of Lara's partnerships to begin the process of taking them to a competitive total that would preclude chasing a significant target on a wearing pitch.
As is readily apparent in the Right's hysterical conniptions over something as basic as Mirandizing a US citizen, Arizona's immigration bill and the even-more rabid gun crowd, America's view of itself as a place that is once free and in need of serious protections and guidelines is an extremely difficult one to process.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's gleaming past and current troubles are right there, plain to see, on Vincent Chan's wall — photographs of more than a hundred Bentleys, Rolls-Royces and Jaguars for sale, luxury cars dumped by their once-flush owners in need of some ready cash.
This new touring musical channels the songs of the era as it tells the story of a fiftysomething divorcee who is revisiting her old copies of Jackie more than 30 years on when she once again finds herself in need of advice.
