Word: epochal
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...when it happened. No vinyl microskirted star lets babbled by; no gawkers gathered under a spangled marquee. Yet the event was as important as any premiere in Hollywood history. On the day in 1966 when Jack Warner sold his studio to the parvenu Seven Arts Productions, a new movie epoch began...
...thing that whites must learn is that every black man is indeed frustrated with advice and information about himself stemming from white sources. That epoch in the Black Revolution is in the past. Now, the most crucial problem which black students have to face is one of independent decision making...
...back on the charts there with Guitar Man, and his earlier hits like Blue Suede Shoes are going for as much as $4 on the second-hand record market. When Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England next month for a tour, they will find that their epoch-making 1950s' recordings of Rock Around the Clock and Shake, Rattle and Roll have been reissued to meet a rising demand. New British groups are being formed with names like Tommy Bishop and the Rock 'n' Roll Revival Show, and trade journals are eagerly asking...
...Lillian Hellman's play. When it first appeared, the Dean recalled, there was a tendency to regard it as some sort of radical tract, to assume that the capitalists in the play, and therefore capitalism itself, were being placed on trial. But the passage of time had dispersed this epoch-induced, typically 30's reaction. Now, the Dean continued, in the bright, clear light of the 60's, it was possible to see the message of The Little Foxes not as a call to radicalism but merely to human decency. By the Dean's reckoning, this change had been...
Some models are so famous and sought after that they appear in the works of painter after painter, and their names, like Suzanne Valadon or Kiki of Montparnasse, become almost bywords for an epoch. Their faces and bodies become familiar, delineated as they were by brush after brush, but America's best-known model may well be remembered for one view, and that of the back of her head. Her middle name is the title of one of the all-time bestselling reproductions, Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World...