For South Africa, it was a special kind of nightmare, since it revived images of massacres by the state in the old apartheid era, with one brutal difference – this time it was predominantly black policemen, with black senior officers working for black politicians, who were doing the shooting.
We can yearn to revive images of old selves and try to slow down the changes we see.
During the Great Depression, regionalist painters like Grant Wood and John Stueart Curry revived the image of the American landscape as an emblem of national identity.
The United States had not informed the Pakistani government before launching the raid, which took place before dawn local time on May 2. The killing of bin Laden, who was behind the September 11 , 2001 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, sent Americans into the street in late-night celebrations and revived the image of a country that would find its enemies - even if it took a decade.
"It took a long time to revive the image of Darjeeling".
Microsoft has been working to revive the image of its ubiquitous Windows operating system, starting with a $300 million advertising campaign that began last fall.
Forget race and gender for a moment: focusing on any particular demographic group is likely to revive the image of the Democratic Party as a collection of "special interests" seeking advantage, rather than a coalition supportive of a broader policy agenda.
In his new paintings he revives the image of Walhalla, the hall of the gods in Germanic and norse legend, in paintings about death, time and the end of the world.
The image on the tapes dampened civic pride in a city that has been hailing its own renaissance, and revived old images of a tough city where police behavior had to be federally monitored.
Tax debates can be treacherous ground for Democrats, they say, particularly when facing a popular Republican president, and they are determined not to let Mr. Bush revive old images of their party.
