Word: landmarked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author relied entirely on secondary sources rather than on firsthand knowledge. In a muddled chapter on dance, George Balanchine, who revolutionized the vocabulary of classical ballet, gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances for films like I Was an Adventuress. Ignored also are Balanchine's two greatest contemporaries: Antony Tudor and Sir Frederick Ashton...
...unlikely a shopping trip as that might seem, it was the scenario on which Sears, Roebuck & Co. built its 1980s growth strategy to turn the nation's prototype "Big Store" into one of the largest retail companies on earth. A decade later, the retailer's executives at the landmark Sears Tower corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago have admitted defeat. In one of the most painful setbacks in its 106- year history, Sears announced that it would soon begin dismantling its $57 billion financial and merchandising empire...
...changed." Well, not recently, anyway. Bush backed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision when he ran for President in 1980, but moved to the right as Vice President under Reagan during the 1980s and, in order to curry favor with the G.O.P. conservatives, eventually came to oppose the landmark decision...
Bone Machine, tom Waits' latest album, is a landmark for American pop music. Waits presents a stark series of bluesy songs that are innovative and profound. The most striking thing about the album is its spare sound. Waits strips down the blues to create a haunting timbre of heavy, hollow drums, chilling guitars and growling vocals...
...1980s, when M.I.T.'s Hynes noticed a resemblance between research coming from obscure labs working on cancer, immunology, developmental biology and hematology. Hynes began to see that these researchers were all exploring aspects of cell adhesion. In 1987 he drew together these separate lines of research and published a landmark paper in the journal Cell that finally connected the dots. "All of a sudden, these fields fused; they were one," says Hynes...