Our subject is the modern female body, that perpetual subject -- and object -- of manipulation, contemplation, rank distaste, celebration and reinvention.
But like Reagan, her great friend and ideological soul mate, she has had a robust political afterlife, her legacy a perpetual subject of revision and debate.
Dresdner Bank became so feeble that it was taken over by its biggest shareholder, Allianz, and Commerzbank is a perpetual subject of takeover speculation.
By contrast, for Plato what has no place is the perceptible society of the here and now, in perpetual change, subject to all sorts of evils and incapable of taking human beings to where their true essence leads them.
The weary acceptance of violence in an atmosphere of perpetual siege is the subject of the Israeli journalist David Ofek's small, chilly documentary "No.
This open-mindedness was reflected in his perpetual fascination with the subject: he once told me that seldom a week passed when he did not meet some new, often extraordinary, facet of human behaviour.
Instead it is a hard-won dedication to service, a kind of restitution for her former life, and the ending of the book is a disturbing hint that the peace she has achieved is contingent and subject to perpetual challenge.
"The enduring vitality of the reactionary spirit even in the absence of a revolutionary political program," he writes, arises from the feeling that "to live a modern life anywhere in the world today, subject to perpetual social and technological changes, is to experience the psychological equivalent of permanent revolution".
In my laboratory, my stove, bifocal glasses, and electrical tubes were the subject of perpetual reinvention.
In other words, inequality is an unstable system subject to perpetual job-losing shocks and "corrections," along with wage-suppressing employment uncertainty.
While we're on the subject of perpetual sadness, that weird, white powder classically used both as an animal tranquilizer and to put you in a k-hole so deep you think you are made up of polygons, ketamine could also help some people with depression.
