But when Tyson was finally here in this revived port city, there was the shrug of indifference, hiding perhaps an aggrieved disdain and a frustration tinged with nationalism.
Still to come were nine more episodes of this audacious science-fiction western; production delays that would cast doubt on the show's future; and, as its Sunday, Oct. 2, premiere date was finally announced, the pressure of reviving HBO's drama slate as "Game of Thrones," another high-concept epic with lots of violence and naked people, enters its twilight.
The idea was revived in the 1990s, when a sequel was finally produced in 1994, in the form of a television miniseries.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at data provider Markit, said the return of the pay rise could also prompt the Bank of England to raise interest rates: "The long-awaited upturn in pay, which has been the missing element of the UK's economic recovery, looks to be finally upon us, reviving the prospect of a rate hike by the end of the year," he said.
He abandoned the project for nearly a decade after finding out that she had been a Stasi informer, but finally revived it with the help of the director Moises Kaufman and the actor Jefferson Mays.
The arcade style of football had been going strong as Blitz for a few seasons, then dropped and finally revived for the PS2 and Xbox in 2005.
Connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson were still dismissing his work a century ago when Lionello Venturi, Roger Fry and Roberto Longhi, among others, finally revived his reputation as a protomodernist.
When the Wisconsin Democratic Party finally revived itself in the 1950s, it did so in a context where members of both parties were unusually open to bipartisan policy approaches.
The acquisition and planning phases of his effort to revive Oyster Bay are finally over, they say, promising that the coming months will bring more and more tangible change and growth.
