Word: revisitable
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...Hollywood. A successful art director, Gary’s designs serve as the backdrop for blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean II & III, Tropic Thunder, and Jurassic Park III. She found time between partying with Robert Downey Jr. and preparing for her next project, The Social Network, to revisit her Harvard days at Currier House and share her wisdom on the film industry...
...sprightly middle-aged man in the 1950s, Heinrich Boere dug for coal in the rich deposits surrounding the West German town of Eschweiler. Now age 88 and reliant on a wheelchair, he's having to revisit even darker depths that were reached during his lifetime. In what is likely to be one of Germany's last Nazi war crimes prosecutions, Boere is finally standing trial in the German city of Aachen for the murders of three Dutch civilians in 1944, when Boere was part of a Nazi death squad...
...painful to revisit these national tragedies, but we need to face up to their lessons. When disaster threatens the country, the appropriate response depends on the type of disaster at hand. When the threat is from a few evil men and the country has only minutes to respond, perhaps only individuals in the moment can effectively act. But when the threat is God-sent, only the most God-like entity we have is up to the task. We should recalibrate our governmental institutions, and our cultural intuitions, accordingly...
Radio Shack • attempted rebranding of as "The Shack" provides excellent excuse to revisit two-year-old Onion article mocking...
...concern is legitimate, says Jordan, who notes that the government had another compelling reason to revisit the contract: surging rubber prices that rose from 50¢ per kg in 2000 to $1.20 per kg in 2005 and to $3.30 per kg last summer. Firestone objected to renegotiations but ultimately relented. "You always talk if the government wants to talk to you," says Padmore...