It is an unavoidable, and extremely painful, irony that the European Union, embodying a fine objective that Europe should never again go to war, should now be reviving so many painful memories of the Second World War.
So many pulses were revived over so many years on "Chicago Hope" and "ER" that the city came to seem like some sort of Lourdes for secularists.
I saw them from her perspective as almost absurdly safe and repetitive--the same caterers, the same talk about how the reef might be revived and how so many hurricane scares might drive real estate prices down.
On balance, it was a mistake for Spielberg and George Lucas (who dreamed up the characters, co-wrote the stories, and produced the series) to revive "Indiana Jones" after so many years.
He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
Perhaps some of it is slightly tweaked from days gone by? (I'll never know but with so many shows revived on Broadway you could hardly blame them for taking advantage of it).
Fleming, in effect, administered the reviving smack that figured in so many movies of the period (including his own) — the slap across the kisser that brought people to their senses.
Gen Y is forever cursed to account somehow for the event that will always define it: the 9/11 terrorist attacks and its subsequent memory, which is now equally destined to be revived and revisited until it, like so many hipster fads of late, is summarised entirely by an online meme generator casually uploading the words "Never Forget" for ever and ever.
It is wonderfully satisfying that a species so adroit at reviving architectural styles as the Victorians should, themselves, be subject to so many revivals of interest, of which Building Jerusalem is only the latest.
For a company with such ambitious (if newfound) plans — to revive an entire genre, to succeed where so many had failed only a decade ago — they had a rather modest campaign goal: $250,000.
