Word: epicent
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...doing a major disservice not only to its own voters, but to the country as a whole. But rather than bolster its image with fresh policy proposals, the party’s current strategy seems to be to take a time-out and keep its fingers crossed for an epic presidential mistake...
...Women’s Tennis Singles Championships in late May. She is only the third player in Harvard history to be invited to this tournament three years in a row. At the championships, hosted by Texas A&M, Ko challenged No. 46 Nadia Abdala from Arizona State. After an epic three-and-a-half hour match, Ko ultimately met her demise, falling 6-2, 6-7, 6-4. “It was a good match,” Ko said. “I didn’t play very well to be honest...
...Harvard women’s volleyball team, it was a season of impressive accomplishments juxtaposed with frustrating defeats. It was a combination of epic comebacks and dropped leads. It was a season of opposites that balanced out to a 10-16 record and hopes for next season...
...Ronettes, with whom he reportedly had a very unhealthy relationship. According to an in-depth 2003 Vanity Fair article, he would often have her call while touring and leave the phone off the hook so that he could fall asleep listening to her breathe. His jealousy was epic. Spector made his estate into a fortress - barbed wire, electric fences - kept a glass-topped coffin in the basement for Ronnie ("so I can keep an eye on her after she's dead") and forced her to take a Phil Spector mannequin with her when she left the house. They eventually divorced...
...Echoes of Oz The movie stirs lots of cinematic echoes, some natural - Walt Disney's Dumbo was a touchstone for Docter - and some weird. The dragging of a large structure over rugged South American terrain is also a motif in the Werner Herzog epic Fitzcarraldo. A love story continued after death: Remember Ghost? Docter also cites Thomas McCarthy's The Station Agent, "the story of a solitary guy who reconnects with the world...