Word: epochal
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...nature's most impressive pageants, monarch butterflies fly from as far away as Canada to spend the winter in tiny patches of fir forest nestled in the mountains of central Mexico.* Though the butterfly migration has been going on since at least the end of the Pleistocene epoch, 10,000 years ago, the isolated roosts were discovered by zoologists only in 1975. Alarmed by the disappearance of forests around the sites, the Mexican government and private conservation groups have joined forces to protect them. Says University of Florida Zoologist Lincoln Brower: "We're dealing with one of the most fragile...
...March the monarchs will stir, begin mating and in a great whirlwind of color set out for the U.S. Six months later, a new generation will fly south, headed for the tiny patches of fir forest that conservationists and Mexican officials hope will be a butterfly refuge for another epoch...
...Epoch-making or not, the symposia will uncover new turf for even the most experienced professor. "I don't think [my symposium] will be completely old hat to people who have some familiarity with the field," Carman says...
...year with the Vatican." Irma, heading back to the States, is consoled by expectations: "I am beginning to think 1929 is going to be a great year for us. There is nothing that makes me feel more alive than making money." With that sentence, the author sums up an epoch. In the process, she conspires with her readers who know, as her characters cannot, that after Black Thursday of the following October, the world will change. With certain notable exceptions, neither hereditary titles nor accumulated wealth -- nor resolutely unfashionable novels -- will ever be the same...
...seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...