Word: epochs
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...might actually succeed in making it on both sides of the Pacific?a feat that hasn't been accomplished since The Sukiyaki Song in 1963. First, she's great looking: those almond-eyes and alluring lips, memorable curves, that skin. The second factor is a quaint one: in the epoch of manager-produced boy bands and teen stars, CoCo Lee can actually sing. Bill Conti, Rocky composer and the conductor of this year's Academy Award orchestra, says he sensed her star quality at the first rehearsal. "Her presence reminds me of Celine when she first sang at the Oscars...
...when. For example, the genome evidently contains a molecular clock in the form of sequences of letters that are repeated between the genes and have mutated over time. The rate of these changes could serve to time-stamp specific traits. We may someday be able to pinpoint the epoch in which the traits that make us uniquely human emerged...
...Derek Jeter masquerading as the V-Spot. Alex Rodriguez did all of baseball a favor by taking Tom Hicks' ridiculous 10 year, $252 million contract to play shortstop for the Texas Rangers. Mark my words, when the history of baseball is written, this contract will be considered as epoch changing as the actions of Curt Flood and Marvin Miller...
...revamped institution. Reflecting on her First year of 1947, Rich recalls a "lack of caring about the minds that inhabit a woman's body." It was an era during which, as Rich recalls, a woman scholar was a second-class citizen. She, however, emerged from the postwar university epoch as a distinguished scholar, graduating from Radcliffe with the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Award...
...shouldn't miss him, certainly. The silver-haired, silver-tongued son of the South, with his appetite for political power, greasy food and big-haired women, has presided over an administration whose sleaze and mediocrity have been well-suited to our meretricious, self-satisfied epoch. Clinton has thrived in a time when Americans are more interested in the color of money than the content of their leaders' character, and so we have allowed Slick Willie's solid economic stewardship to trump his betrayals of trust, the corruption of his cronies and his outrageously sordid personal life...