Word: lazarus
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...addition to welcoming millions of immigrants arriving at neighboring Ellis Island (the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," in the words of Emma Lazarus' poem, itself written as part of a Statue of Liberty fundraiser), the statue had a more immediately practical function: lighthouse. Considered a navigational aid to ships entering the harbor, the statue was first administered by the U.S Lighthouse Board before eventually falling under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. A massive, two-year project restored and improved the statue in time for its 100th birthday in 1986, marked by a four-day extravaganza...
...infidel civilians alike, the new space adventure earned sage nods of commendation for the director who had modernized a middle-age franchise: J.J. Abrams, the TV-drama mogul of Alias, Lost and Fringe and a member of that ultra-exclusive club, the TIME 100. "J.J. Abrams is officially the Lazarus of movie directors," proclaimed box office stats swami Steve Mason - though Abrams' only other retooling, Mission: Impossible III, was the lowest-grossing of that action trio...
...loved spending time with my maternal grandmother, who lived with us when I was young. I loved sewing but hated it at the same time. Why I was pricking myself with needles, tacking together scraps of fabric to make a quilt, when bed comforters were for sale at Lazarus...
...saying goes, though, it’s always darkest before Fleet Foxes plays “Sun It Rises.” And so, to my disbelief, the College Events Board (CEB) deigned to reach down and pull me, Lazarus-like, out from the abyss of despair by inviting Ratatat to this year’s Yardfest. All at once I felt like maybe I wouldn’t have to spend my whole postgraduate life telling girls at concerts that I went to Brown...
...have they headlined? Anyone who can spontaneously name the last film that each of these four starred in deserves a share of F&F's profits. (Or spends too much time fishing through the video-store discount bin. The answers, in case you were wondering, are Babylon A.D., The Lazarus Project, A Cat's Tale and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning...