In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on. ❋ Unknown (2011)
UK summary Riotous golden-age workplace sitcom about the exploits of saucy 70s bus driver Stan Butler and his put-upon nemesis Inspector Blake. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's a record that recalls a golden-age of egocentric hip-hop, when Eminem and Biggie had lives worth talking about. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The name for this malady, he announces, is "golden-age thinking." ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)
As a writer and director he presided over a golden-age that spanned “Meatballs,” “Caddyshack,” “Animal House,” “Stripes,” and “Ghostbusters.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
The genre that golden-age Dutch painters propelled to a finer art form and Impressionist painters including Vincent Van Gogh further developed, has since been tightly associated with this country—as is, of course, the chosen subject. ❋ Joel Weickgenant (2011)
It feels like the flick should be in Black & White and star golden-age Hollywood stars like Katharine Hepburn and leading man Cary Grant. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It replayed endlessly on Comedy Central when I was younger, and the skits, the songs, the characters — including golden-age SNL faves like Emily Litella, Lisa Loopner, and Roseanne Roseannadanna — are all too ingrained in my childhood memory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since emerging from bankruptcy protection a year ago, MGM bears little resemblance to either the entity in its golden-age glory days or to what it was at its lowest point, when its $5 billion of debt kept it from making all but a handful of low-budget movies. ❋ Erica Orden (2011)
To be sure, most of Stephen Sondheim's songs, many of which are glitteringly virtuosic pastiches of golden-age musical-comedy tunes, lend themselves to being performed as showstoppers. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
Here's someone who truly relished this return to the spotlight, and as golden-age contestants go, she delivered the goods better than most, with buckets of glittery personality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Happily, Kaufmann's Lohengrin is partnered by an Elsa fully up to his standard -- soprano Anja Harteros, whose luminous, warmly communicative singing has one reaching for golden-age comparisons like Elisabeth Grummer and Maria Muller. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'll start with the books and stories that made me an SF reader: the Heinlein juveniles, the Asimov Foundation and Robot stories, and the Groff Conklin golden-age anthos. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Since the Rock the Bells festival brought them back together in 2006, Erick and Parrish continue to ride a wave of golden-age fan support, so expect a big crowd at Liv. ❋ Fritz Hahn (2010)
Led by the idea of "costume as a cinematic spectacle", the emphasis is on opulence and exotica, from the 60s underground to golden-age costume epics, with rarities from Michael Curtiz, Jack Smith and Germaine Dulac. ❋ Steve Rose (2010)
Since the Rock the Bells festival brought them back together in 2006, Erick and Parrish continue to ride a wave of golden-age fan support. ❋ Post (2010)
"Some people are just illustrators and some people are storytellers," says golden-age historian Jim Amash. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One plagiarised its love scene comma for comma from Waterloo; another was minstrel-show racist, whereas golden-age melos had been defiantly anti-slavery, defending liberty for all. ❋ Vera Rule (2010)
But these EMI recordings are a fine introduction to a truly golden-age singer who, especially in Wagner, has never been equaled. ❋ Joe Banno (2010)
