There, a passel of ambitious new rulers came out of the blue and created an assertive, self-promotional dynastic art of almost hallucinatory strangeness and brilliance, briefly revivifying an ancient culture in its twilight years.
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He's the white man who appears at the beginning of the play and, talking directly to the audience, describes the strange beauty of the Karoo and its unexpected, revivifying fertility, which he knows firsthand.
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With that kind of overkill, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick's documentary " nearly smothers the revivifying Chomsky skepticism under a woolly blanket of fancy graphics, archival material and redundant images " ( Vincent Canby ).
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Hand-altered photographs of Manuel Acevedo, a former Studio Museum artist in residence and a participant in " Greater New York, " are at once poetic conceptual fantasies and realizable proposals for revivifying desolate urban landscapes.
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The soul of Arthur Miller's " Death of a Salesman " looms behind the small, unthreatening revival of the play, now at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, like the promise of a fierce, revivifying midsummer storm.
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The revelation here is the ability of great theater to transform the most unlikely material into the kind of enriching, revivifying experience that defines art, no matter what the subject, or when it was created, or for whom it might have been intended.
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It might sound a little corny, but, he said, studying the works of the ancient Greek philosophers inspired employees at Ohio Casualty to think in new ways about fulfilling their lives in ways that would also have the practical effect of revivifying the company.
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Imagine that somehow you were obliged to reconstruct a Holstein or an Angus from all its commercially disseminated parts, no matter how small, reclaiming them from all of their uses, no matter how diverse, until you succeeded in reintegrating and revivifying an animal.
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`( HBO-ROME-MINISERIES ( Undated )-- The cable network that made morticians sexy ( " Six Feet Under " ) and that just began deconstructing the western ( " Deadwood " ) is now reconstructing and revivifying ancient Rome.
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Ezra Pound urged in 1914, and these jazz modernists do so by revivifying trite lyrics and melodies . "'Tain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, " as Trummy Young sang with Jimmie Lunceford's band in 1939.