Once, not so long ago, motorcycles did the same thing.
I was thin again once not so long ago.
The Obama White House was once not so averse to such public ceremonies.
Once, not so long ago, Williams would not have been prepared to handle such a demand.
Once, not so long ago, Llewyn Davis had a partner, but now he's flying solo.
The two cities were once not so far apart but now "the difference is considerable".
The bottom line is clear enough: once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe.
The European environment, once not so unequally shared by animals and people, has, with the march of civilization, been subjected to human attempts.
Once, not so very long ago, the pasta of Italian dreams was kneaded, rolled and shaped by hand in the kitchen.
Once, not so long ago, Kiarostami was the de facto leader of the Iranian new wave, the creator of soulful, enigmatic human stories rooted in his home soil.
This kind of ascendance, once not so remarkable, now seems urgently in need of the honest accounting that Vance provides in his new memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy".
