Word: antediluvian
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...can’t believe I can eat whatever I want. An individual piece of chicken fried just for me with buns nearby? Alpine Strawberry or Antediluvian Chocolate? Nice. It seems like I can sit with anyone and just introduce myself. Four years of friendly classmates? I’ll take seconds! I can just casually bring up that stern lady who swiped us all in. We all have that in common! Easy introduction. It seems like all of the African-American students are at one table. This wasn’t in the folder! This wasn?...
...decided we had a policy against the mingling of advertising and editorial content and we would have to give the Pom Wonderful money to charity. Oddly, I thought that was what I was doing this whole time. Instead, all my efforts did was teach me exactly why the proud, antediluvian print-journalism companies are in financial trouble. Not only is Time Inc. turning down $25,000, but it's employing three editors for this column...
...intensity of these problems is so obvious, even the Republicans - especially John McCain, Mike Huckabee and the latest edition of Mitt Romney - are talking about them. But G.O.P. credibility is undercut by its antediluvian Reaganism: its reflexive opposition to any solution - and therefore any sense of nonmilitary national purpose - coming out of Washington...
...power of silence the way the Coens have in “No Country.” One of its most noticeable features is what lacks: a soundtrack. Virtually free of artificial sound, viewers experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian void where angels exist, but far more devils can be found. In the midst of the total quiet, tension swells, revelations spread, and the great, monolithic equilibrium of chance reigns free. Set in 1980, the plot centers around Josh Brolin’s character, a hunter and Vietnam veteran who stumbles upon...
...we’re betting these albums earn.But for once, the Something defining a Radiohead album might be immediately identifiable. If “OK Computer” revivified rock and became an undisputed classic; if “Kid A” exorcised rock music’s antediluvian fears of electronic music; if “Hail to the Thief” was the most haunting expression of post-9/11 anxiety that music has yet produced; then “In Rainbows” is Great chiefly because it’s an album.Sort of. It?...