Word: retrospect
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...think in the burnished light of retrospect they’ve taken on this lovely nostalgic glow,” Zwick says of his college years, “whereas in the middle of them they were convulsive, tortured, gleeful, lonely and delicious, and every other combination of feelings that you might have between the ages of 18 and 21. They were all that they needed to be,” he says...
Like so much else I did during my first year at Harvard, my declaration of Freedonian citizenship seemed like a good idea at the time, and now like mortifyingly pretentious posturing in retrospect. But unlike much of what I did during my freshman year, my declaration of Freedonian citizenship sprang from an insecurity that still haunts me: a lack of cultural identity...
...years ago for selling an illicit item that was later impounded in the U.S.--heard about a collection of figurines stolen from Empress Dou's tomb. He says he tried to get his hands on them, but another gallery owner, just down the street, scored the statues instead. In retrospect, he says, "I'm glad I didn't get to buy them. I don't need any more trouble...
...diplomatic fallout from the picture, which featured Clark and Mladic smiling jovially in their swapped hats, was severe. (It’s been rumored that Clark’s gaffe delayed his promotion to four-star general.) In retrospect, the picture appears even more shocking given what transpired nine months later in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. Over the course of a week, Mladic directed a systematic roundup of the city’s Muslims and organized their transportation to execution sites. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that 7,079 Bosnian Muslims were killed in Srebrenica between...
...question: What exactly did these four bands and the various stragglers have in common? What vision did the Hives share with the White Stripes aside from duochrome fashion choices? If bare-bones rock was the uniting factor, where exactly did the regularly over-produced Vines fit in? In retrospect it is easy to see that the supposed movement lacked the kind of collective sensibility that made punk, reggae and grunge such hallmarks of the rock genre...