Word: anciently
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...thus that I discovered a relentless campaign to bring us the ultimate dating show, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?", and a frenzied effort to sell Andrew Dice Clay (remember him?) transported back in time to ancient Rome to be the talent booker for "Colosseum...
...contrast, Dallas owner Jerry Jones has refused to end his team's ancient rivalries from the NFC East. Every indication points towards him getting...
...travel hundreds of kilometers to find the ideal backdrop for each scene. Before the shoot in Heng-dian, the 300-strong crew crisscrossed mainland China from Dunhuang in the northwest of Gansu province to Jiuzhaigou in northern Sichuan. Last year, the company dropped everything to head for an ancient oak grove in Inner Mongolia to shoot a fight scene between Cheung and Zhang Ziyi at the height of the fall foliage. "I had a guy out there specifically to keep an eye on the leaves," says Zhang. "He made videotapes of their progress as they turned from green to yellow...
...response to Ross Douthat's column, "Looking Backwards" (Editorial, Jan. 17): Somehow I doubt that people back in 1900 were walking around thinking (in French), "Gee, the culture today is positively glittering, on par with the Italian Renaissance, and perhaps even comparable to ancient Athens in breadth and splendor...
...here's where the pessimism comes in, folks--a hundred years ago, Paris and all the West possessed a thriving, glittering cultural life, one that vied with the Italian Renaissance and even ancient Athens in breadth and splendor...