Word: spans
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...deem a phenomenon a trend is to imply its transience. In fashion, the life-span of a trend rarely exceeds four months, the length of a season, or roughly the time it takes a style to travel from New York to the rest of the country where, once embraced, it is unsentimentally dismissed by its original champions. So while the first half of the year was dominated by "ladylike" dressing, the prim skirt-and-sweater sets of demure eras past, the latter half celebrated all things leather. Along the way, women dallied with python skin, revived the Pucci print...
...that span of 29 seconds, the heroics of sophomore Elliott Prasse-Freeman, captain Dan Clemente and Harvey turned a disappointing Ivy League loss into a game that no one will soon forget. It's hard to put into words, but it was an ending worthy of legend...
...triumphs were legendary. In one day, Oct. 31, 1987, Chris Antley rode nine different horses to first-place finishes, the only jockey in history ever to do so. And in a span of nine years, Antley would win the Kentucky Derby not once but twice, the first time in 1991 aboard Strike the Gold, the second in 1999 aboard Charismatic. Even in defeat, he could be inspiring. Racing the Belmont in 1999, Charismatic came up lame at the end. Television cameras recorded Antley leaping off his mount to brace the ailing leg of the horse, saving the Thoroughbred from...
...Wednesday morning he sent out the word that the recount shop was closed, and made it known that 9 p.m. was concession time - and the speech would not only be easy on the ears but, at 10 minutes, easy on the attention span too. Gore, of course, is writing it himself...
...feel so lucky, that I had so many opportunities. I don't feel that Hollywood is not giving women a chance. Women have a shorter span of time, but it's really an individual process. Women still have bridges to cross...