And the fascination persists to this day".
But what are the odds on him being asked again on Tuesday if his big English striker – three words that encapsulate why this fascination persists – plays a key role at Bournemouth?
Although a collaborative first book of poems sold only two copies, the Brontë sisters were in their own time subject to the kind of cult fascination that persists today, with thousands of pilgrims journeying every year to the Brontë home, in Yorkshire.
Through the months "Spider-Man" has remained one of the top-grossing shows on Broadway, earning more than $25 million so far, persisting as an object of fascination for fans of Spider-Man, U2, Ms. Taymor and problem-plagued entertainment.
Fascination can't persist, either.
This fascination, clearly, has persisted in the modern age.
Ms. Wood's death, on Nov. 29, 1981, in the waters off Santa Catalina Island, has persisted as a subject of Hollywood fascination.
Our mythologizing fascination with that night persists, most recently in the form of "A Rite," an ambitious new collaboration between the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the SITI Company, the theater troupe directed by Anne Bogart.
Mr. Alda, now 76, pursued acting rather than science — many people still think of him as Hawkeye Pierce from the television series "M*A*S*H" — but his fascination with the universe persisted.
Popular fascination with older methods persists, however: Every few years, Albert Einstein's preserved brain is the subject of a new study claiming to have found neurological evidence of his genius.
While many details of the miners' health care and living conditions have been reported, misconceptions and misinformation persisted as the ordeal continued and as the public's fascination with their deprivation increased.
