And while it has become beloved in its absence (thanks, HBO Go!) and is slated to return to HBO for a much-delayed second season on 9 November, its prescience about reality television is only half of its genius.
But while it has become an instant icon here, the Memoria Project is essentially homeless.
While it has become a national shrine, like Pearl Harbor or Gettysburg, ground zero is still a 16-acre construction site.
While it has become harder for many to enter the housing market, those who do make it want even more once they get there.
While it has become a truism that the internet will revolutionize higher education, there is some confusion as to exactly whose experience is likely to be transformed.
While it has become standard practice for directors to establish the look of a film in its pre-production stages, Mr. Rivette has long preferred to find his visual approach while working with his actors on the set.
And while it has become more common for ballet dancers to attend college while maintaining a professional career, starting a company while pursuing a degree is something else entirely, requiring all the administrative drudgery of a real job.
While it has become traditional to list the myriad concerns facing Olympic organisers before an event then to hail it as a triumph afterwards, Sochi is setting a new bar.
While it has become a staple of world theater, "Godot" curiously has never since been produced on Broadway (aside from an all-black staging that ran for a handful of performances shortly after the original).
For Kanelidou, determined now that optimism and individual action is the only way Greece will haul itself out of the mire, the country's crisis, while it has become financial, is above all a crisis of values.
