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Word: epicent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Just as these individual moments reflect the spirit of candidates and citizens, the election itself acts as a microcosm for American society. This year’s face-off, in all its minute moments, plays like the trailer to an epic film about American life, starring all the A-listers—War, Economy, Race, Gender, Age, Tina Fey—and distilling with surprising accuracy the issues that define our national consciousness. Pretty big work for grains of sand...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: In a Nutshell | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...your great literature or cinema has the concept of a windshield wiper in it. That was a little disconcerting. But I did feel like what this man had created had great value to him personally and subsequently made his fight with Ford so personal. It was a pretty epic battle in that sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greg Kinnear | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...challenge and discourages yes-men. It may even pay to designate a person to play devil's advocate--an official skeptic. The authors believe strongly that inside doubts deserve to be aired before outside financial disaster strikes. They should be getting busy now with a revision to include the epic failures currently taking place in the financial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...press in working order. All four of the printers should be online in the next two weeks (although the 19th century clamshell platen press is too delicate for daily use) and days were spent cleaning the front and back room of the press. It was an epic task that, by all estimates, hasn’t been attempted in 15 years. “The dust was as historic as Harvard,” Sifuentes says. Despite his concerns, Russem is optimistic that the trial run “will not only change how students use type...but how they...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bow and Arrow Press Gets Classy | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...that the song feels bracing and exuberant. The result is an album whose ferocious commitment to several strains of the metal tradition belies its patent complexity and eagerness to appropriate other musical idioms. “The Unforgiven III” opens with familiar themes of Norse mythology and epic journey: “Set sail to sea, but pulled off course / By the light of golden treasure / How could he know this new dawn’s light / Would change his life forever?” But the string quartet and clutch of trombones that introduce the song...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Metallica | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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