Word: historicizing
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If the nine days of competition were hard on Phelps, they might have been even harder on his teammates, overshadowed by "the Quest" and yet, in three relay races, a crucial part of Phelps' historic effort. "Of course we are all paying attention to what is going on," said Aaron...
So he impresses the world's top swimmers, but what impresses the world's top swimmer the most? All Phelps could talk about after his historic achievement was the fact that two of his races were broadcast live, at a baseball stadium and in a football arena, back home. "I...
Both the real and mock weddings had symbolic meaning beyond that which normally accompanies the ritual of matrimony. For the 400 people who gathered outside the palace's walls, the farcical ceremony was a protest against the Franco family's private ownership of a historic home that should, in their...
But in a country where nary a statue of the dictator is left standing, and plans are in motion to turn the Valley of the Fallen, Franco's oversized and overwrought mausoleum, into a history museum, it comes as little surprise that some Spaniards take issue with his descendants' continuing...
Among all the fans wearing LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, and Yao Ming jerseys before the much-anticipated U.S.-China basketball game Sunday night, Men Yong Fan, a graduate student at Peking University, had high hopes for his country's historic moment against the United States. "I'm Chinese, so I...