Word: resurrectible
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...spent many hours over the summer sketching the abandoned buildings of the city's past. Many of my memorable conversations came about as I sat alone trying to resurrect Newark in pencil and paper...
...Friday, he performed before a sold-out FleetCenter in downtown Boston. Unfortunately, the condition of his vitality did not exhibit much variance between the two occasions. The old bard has clearly lost his touch, but that didn't stop the girls sitting in front of me from trying to resurrect some of his old spirit. The young women filed in before the lights in the arena had gone down, eight of them in all, all done up in tight tops and black go-go pants. They weren't exactly the sort of kids you'd expect...
...zealously care for our rights and value freedom as a paramount goal of government must realize that we are caught between a rock and a hard place: maintain the single-minded focus on freedom and individualism and lose the personal responsibility that makes them possible, or seek to resurrect community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear to me, but to begin with, liberals must combine a vehement attention to rights with a circumspect view...
...punishment money is the least important part of the package. It cannot resurrect all those millions of dead smokers or cure those now terminally afflicted. Besides, current high cigarette excise taxes already cover much of the states' public-health outlay to care for sick smokers. The settlement price is really meant to put a dent in the American tobacco industry's bottom line. But by gradually jacking up the retail price of the 24 billion packs they sell in the U.S. annually and saving much of their present multibillion-dollar-a-year advertising, promotion and merchandising budget (thanks to restrictions...
...what we could call the "post medium" age. By this I mean that conceptual art, installation art, and a great deal of what happened in the eighties was about dismantling the idea of medium, although there was also a sort of reactionary backlash in the eighties to try to resurrect old media like painting, sculpture etc. Recently, I've just done a long essay on the Irish artist James Coleman, and one of the points of that essay was how he has done something that I would call" inventing a medium," in his case based on the very low-life...