In 2015, there is no better embodiment of California's dizzying, orphic appeal than the singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey, herself a myth, the present-day iteration of Lizzy Grant, a girl who was born in New York City in 1985 and came of age in Lake Placid, a former Olympic boomtown deep in the Adirondack Mountains.
And again this present-day iteration of the faith has developed a negative reputation in Russia, with the movement still at odds with the Russian Orthodox Church, who regularly get them framed as right-wing nationalists or degenerates in the country's state-run media.
In the absence of any broad-based truth and justice commission like that of South Africa at the end of apartheid, the popularity of such history projects reflect a sense that too much of America's violent racial past is unknown, that there are still lessons to learn, pain to acknowledge, sins to confess, and present-day iterations to acknowledge.
Leiber died in 2011, but Stoller is celebrating his eightieth birthday, in the company of the bandleader Paul Shaffer and a cast of vocalists whose strengths lie in the cabaret and adult-contemporary genres, including Bettye LaVette, Steve Tyrell, Melissa Manchester, Tommy Tune, Karen Akers, and a present-day iteration of the Coasters.
While the event was designed to criticize consumerism, it's present-day iteration instead creates hostility toward actual Santa impersonators, who have nothing to do with the shitshow of SantaCon.
Some songs, like "Chinese Envoy," once a spare, prickling dirge and now a boisterous electro-pop song, are almost unrecognizable in their present-day iterations.
There are limitations to how effectively they can handle present day payment scenarios, even after iterations of costly enhancements and retrofitting.
I was present at the creation of the present iteration of CBS News in 1987, and I can attest to the fact that it was a crushingly revolutionary change.
Impressions of present day Italy.
Products of present day life.
The show lets contestants present some iteration of performance that is traditionally tied to being gay.
