But the Berlin Wall was so effectively erased because the people of Berlin took it down -- from both sides.
If Spielberg is being nostalgic, it's less for his own childhood (he grew up in the fifties) than for the childhoods that he helped transform — for the epoch that was so effectively colonized by his films, and by those of his contemporaries.
During the 1920s, River Oaks was so effectively organized, planned and restricted that it became the most expensive neighborhood in Houston.
The historian K.B. McFarlane found it hard "to think of another moment of comparable importance in medieval English political history when the supply of information was so effectively manipulated as it was by Henry IV on this occasion".
The west and south coast of modern Sweden was so effectively part of the Danish realm that the said area (and not the today Denmark) was known as "Denmark" (literally the frontier of the Daner).
Remember how the mighty Microsoft, apparently unassailable in its day, was so effectively made to mend its ways in a series of Euro-rulings, culminating in its complete surrender in 2007?
