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The whip-smart, late-20th-century retelling of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most epochal teen rom-coms.
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EW.com, 13 May 2024
Last year, two TV series, Netflix’s Transatlantic and Nat Geo’s A Small Light, illuminated the other side of the epochal struggle between Nazism and humanism, dramatizing the stories of real people who fought to save the lives of Jews and other targets of the Reich.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
But in 1895, the composer already dead, a revival took place at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, the music and scenario tweaked and with new choreography by the great Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov (for the epochal lakeside action).
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
To read Axios reporter Felix Salmon’s description of it, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders is an epochal event.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
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EW.com, 13 May 2024
Last year, two TV series, Netflix’s Transatlantic and Nat Geo’s A Small Light, illuminated the other side of the epochal struggle between Nazism and humanism, dramatizing the stories of real people who fought to save the lives of Jews and other targets of the Reich.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
But in 1895, the composer already dead, a revival took place at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, the music and scenario tweaked and with new choreography by the great Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov (for the epochal lakeside action).
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
To read Axios reporter Felix Salmon’s description of it, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders is an epochal event.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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