Word: revisitable
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...LESSON? ARE RAUNCHIER COMEDIES AHEAD? I don't look at it as raunchy. It's a fun, good-natured comedy that pushes some people's taste levels. As far as the R rating goes, while I think the rating system is totally necessary, it's probably time to revisit it and re-evaluate why things are rated a certain...
...rich and revelatory, Wellington University's Roger Robinson last year published Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings. "Together they form a contribution to the literature in English of the Pacific, in five genres, that still stands unmatched," he concludes. So in this postcolonial age, are we ready to revisit Stevenson? A rereading of his novella The Beach of Fales? (1892), the only completed work in a planned series on cross-cultural encounters, suggests so. Peopled with dyspeptic traders, white-suited missionaries and superstitious Samoan villagers, it blends mythical tales with sea stories, achieving a heightened realism that critiques...
...tomb of the Mughal poet Zauq is discovered to have disappeared under a municipal urinal or the haveli courtyard house of his great rival Ghalib is revealed to have been turned into a coal store; but most of the losses go unrecorded. I find it heartbreaking: every time I revisit one of my favorite monuments, it has either been overrun by a slum, unsympathetically restored by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), or simply demolished. By now, almost all the havelis of Old Delhi have been destroyed. According to historian Pavan Varma, the majority of the buildings he recorded...
...next four years, students would revisit that day. Sept. 11 changed the tenor of life at military academies and left students in New York City and Washington, D.C. feeling more vulnerable. But at Harvard, the effects have been more subtle and cerebral...
...one’s going to sign onto this event unless a lot more regulations and restrictions are put in place,” Evans said. “We’re going to have to revisit the whole idea of such a large-scale event...