Word: reigning
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...since early February the wintery weather's reign has been tougher to handle than most Harvard opponents. In recent months, snow-free Crimson playing fields have been rarer sights than construction-free days in Harvard square...
...talks of the "brief brilliant reign" of reason in the 18th century, but it did not enlighten those resolutely wrong colonial experts in England. To see reason at its worst, she might have examined at more length the self-destructive phenomenon that she only touches on in her introduction: the French Revolution...
...hero on the run; he's isolated from the people who sent him out (the ones he knew have all been killed and the others can't reach him) and he's got to bring down this maniacal organization in a few weeks before the world explodes in a reign of terror that they've engineered. But Ludlum heroes, even though wounded, on the fun and recognized everywhere, don't roll over and play dead. Nope, they usually manage to find a woman to help and support them--Converse's ex-wife comes to the scene--and they...
Well Converse does, but in a singularly unconvincing, uninspired and unexciting way. Oh yeah, he has a rough time doing it--captured by an insane bunch of women who survived the Nazi reign of terror who think he's a traitor to them or running into a whole bunch of killers from Aquitaine on trains. But the rough times are just there to add space, not inventive or surprising plot twists, to the very long (647 pages) book. The problem is that we already know what the conspiracy is, and somehow, the rough times seem like parodies of better Ludlum...
Every generation indulges in fashion and cosmetic trends which render it laughable to posterity. Today's college students were innocent by standers during the age of the perilous Platform Shoe, but they were willing (albeit junior) accomplices during the reign of Discowear and the Farrah-Do. Their historical reputation will be further pockmarked by the city dwellers who insist on dressing like cow punchers, cattle wrestlers, and bronco busters...