Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone out the entire round of golf and had played really aggressive golf," Radtke said. "I was stepping up there trying to make birdie. In retrospect, maybe I would have made a different play...
...last Thursday morning the telephone lines all over Beirut suddenly and mysteriously went dead. The glitch was probably caused by the city's notoriously fickle communication lines. But in retrospect, it seemed more like a sign that trouble was in the air. Literally in the air, it turned out: just off the coast, four Israeli helicopter gunships were loosing laser-homing Hellfire missiles and delivering Israel's first attack on Beirut in 14 years...
...hype of the whole enterprise, in retrospect, seems reckless. Let us tick off the deceptions that everyone involved pretended were true: the trip was Jessica's idea; she was doing it for the joy of flying; she was truly piloting the plane; it was safe; she wasn't scared. For the most part, the public played along with this game, for it is easier not to question the received platitudes. Yet, looking at her taped interviews after the fact, it is clear that the dutiful little girl who didn't want to disappoint her father, who insisted...
...Kaczynski '62, the prime Unabomber suspect, many media reports have focused on Kaczynski's ties to Harvard College. Much of the country seems to be surprised that such a bizarre character was educated at Harvard. However, many Harvard students are not surprised by these developments at all. In retrospect, it makes sense that a bomber who struck Yale and Berkeley but not Harvard was probably a graduate who still had a bit of respect for his alma mater. And now, many undergraduates are looking around at their classmates with increased interest, wondering who will be suspected of committing odd crimes...
...RETROSPECT, IT SEEMS A STRANGE cultural aberration. Or maybe a temporary virus. For a couple of years there, David Letterman was the toast of television. After toiling in the wee hours for more than a decade, the host of NBC's Late Night had been passed over for the job as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show. But he parlayed that slight into a lucrative new contract at CBS and his own 11:30 p.m. show to compete with Jay Leno. The crowds that jammed his studio audience gave him standing ovations every night; his Top 10 lists...