Some find her too beholden to the A.N.C., while others have accused her of betraying its revolutionary promise by pointing to the government's shortcomings.

This tender portrait of late-1960s French youth stars Louis Garrel as François, a 20-year-old Parisian struggling through the fires of revolutionary promise and its smoldering remains.

The election today illustrated the disillusionment that many ordinary Iranians feel about their Government's inability to fulfill the revolutionary promise of a better standard of living.

In personally introducing the revived Bat each night, he invokes the mundane despair and revolutionary promise of 70 years ago, but the audience understandably thinks he is talking of today.

The revolutionary promise of the Internet, for example has surely affected the stock market.

Bui Tin's long journey reflects a growing disillusionment among important Vietnamese Communists with Hanoi's failure to deliver on its revolutionary promises.

For them, the Bolshevik triumph marked not the fulfilment but the failure of the revolutionary promise of 1917.

Disillusion with revolutionary promises of political reform is also evident in El gesticulador, a play by Mexico's leading dramatist, Rodolfo Usigli (1905-79).

Celluloid fetishists and those video artists who still believe in the revolutionary promise of their medium may care about format, but such fussiness seems quaint and generally beside the point.

Savage writes, "The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H".