Word: retrospection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more surprising and engaging. Rock stars above the age of 50 who have not made the artistic move to Vegas are few and far between, and Jagger is possibly the first to sing with authority about how a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll might feel in retrospect. And by god, he can still shake those hips and flap those lips...
...There was no reason to think that they would converge on the same molecular pathway, but in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. It turns out that certain aspects of the brain are simpler than we thought,” Weitz said...
With this selection, along with stale leftovers from Thanksgiving (like the grossly disappointing yet massively popular Harry Potter), Christmas is going to be a fun-filled movie season, even if the economy is depressed and all anyone buys is undergarments. Of course, in retrospect, even Home Alone 18 would be appealing at this point, coming off one of Hollywood’s worst years ever. Who can remember a worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg?...
Gellert got to make his impact on the program his sophomore year, after the graduation of Hill. Though he had played the point his entire life, that season he would be asked to change positions. In retrospect, he says it was for the better...
...retrospect, the Greek theme to her first photo at Harvard is fitting. A Leverett house senior who hails from Normal, Ill., Sarah is a math concentrator. She sees Greek letters all the time in her mathematical studies, and spent last summer learning Ancient Greek at Harvard Summer School. When first learning Greek, “knowing math gives you a slight edge,” she says, “because you already know how to write...