Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condescension of her husband Ricky, played by her real-life husband and business partner Desi Arnaz. The confident king of the castle, he was always ready to teach Lucy a lesson. Looking back from an '80s perspective, some observers have suggested that Lucy was virtually an abused wife. In retrospect, Ball might have agreed. Certainly, she was bitter about the off- camera problems caused by Arnaz's drinking, philandering and intense workaholism...
Neither Pons nor Fleischmann would have ranked high on anyone's list of scientists likely to revolutionize physics, although both are respected researchers in the field of electrochemistry, the study of how chemical reactions behave in the presence of an electric field. In retrospect, though, their backgrounds were quirky enough to suggest that almost anything was possible. Pons, in particular, had an unorthodox professional history. A native North Carolinian, Pons, 46, dropped out of graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1967, just a few months shy of getting a Ph.D. in chemistry. "Jobs for Ph.D. chemists were paying...
...council member, I attended last Sunday's meeting at which the council considered a resolution which declared unconstitutional its previous request to allow ROTC back on campus. Never mind that there are serious problems with a legislative body assessing the constitutionality of its own actions in retrospect. There are enough questions involved with the manner in which the council proceeded to declare the resolution unconstitutional...
...retrospect, were your battles with the Hollywood establishment inevitable? Might things have been different had you played your cards differently...
Similarly, his stammer posed a problem: how to get the attention he craved without risking public humiliation. In retrospect, the solution seems obvious: "The papery self-magnification and immortality of printed reproduction -- a mode of self-assertion that leaves the cowardly perpetrator hidden and out of harm's way -- was central to my artistic impulse." Redemption beckoned: "To be in print was to be saved...