After a two-year spell at White Hart Lane, a period the player himself has described as "horrible", Bent is enjoying a renaissance since his record move to Sunderland in the summer.
Keane has had limited first-team opportunities since returning to White Hart Lane for a second spell with the north Londoners from Liverpool at the start of 2009.
Kaschei's efforts to keep his female captives in submission and put Ivan under his spell turn futile once the white-clad hero waves the feather he gained for granting freedom to the firebird.
True, the British government did not exactly spell things out (its white paper in 1971 said there was no question of losing essential sovereignty), but the European project, with its promise of ever-closer union, always had an overtly political dimension.
He may or may not spell it out, but there is an underlying sense from this White House, as much as the last, of that contradictory feeling that American exceptionalism is a worldwide export.
But the timing of Bush's support for offshore oil drilling this week may spell trouble for McCain's efforts to distance himself from the embattled White House.