Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...proud of that role. I'm proud of everything that happened after 9/11. The country was in a traumatized state and retrospect clears a lot of things...
...edge like musical version of nails against a chalkboard. But without Dench, none of it would stick. Dench plays Barbara Covett, who fills notebook after notebook with the unfiltered impressions of her keen and bitter psyche, and with all the charm of a steel fire door. In retrospect, this behavior hints at something much deeper than bitterness, but Patrick Marber’s (“Closer”) screenplay holds onto every detail until the moment of greatest effect. Thus, by the end, we are disturbed to find ourselves so well inside the mind of a borderline sociopath like...
...pleather suits, the band members were only too happy to dance a funeral jig on the grave of radio. “Who wants to be a DJ when you can be a VJ?” insinuated the men in space suits driving MTV flags into the moon.In retrospect, The Buggles were a little too quick to blow up that poor girl’s large transistor radio in the video. The Buggles now languish in one-hit-wonder hell, MTV has banned music videos to the outer-most reaches of cable, and if anyone still wants to grow...
...retrospect, it would have been a lot less trouble for someone to push Litvinenko under a bus than to feed him polonium. But it's likely his poisoners did not anticipate the brouhaha his death would cause. "I believe this was a botched operation," says Litvinenko's friend Alexander Goldfarb, who helped him escape from Russia and runs the Berezovsky-funded International Foundation for Civil Liberties in New York City. Without the intervention of Britain's nuclear-bomb lab, the cause of death would have remained shrouded. Boris Zhuykov, chief of the radioisotope laboratory at the Nuclear Research Institute...
...dominated his opponent in an 8-0 major decision that earned the Crimson its sole win with bonus points all afternoon. “If it’s a loss, we’ve got to keep it close,” Weiss said. “In retrospect, it kind of got out of hand. Any time you’re going to give up bonus points, that’s going to hurt the team score.” Thanks to O’Connor’s victory, Harvard managed to narrow American?...