Sentences with phrase «heady years»

Running until 3 November 2013, Taiping Tianguo explores actual and concrete, as well as tenuous or even possibly non-existing connections between four artists in New York in the heady years of 1980s and the early 1990s.

Marty has been gaming since the heady years of the ZX - 81 and still owns most of the gaming systems purchased since those days, including the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, SNES, Jaguar, Dreamcast and GameCube.

As an early Baby Boomer, I have had my fill of attempting sexual fulfillment through all those heady years of Germaine Greer, Betty Friedman, Anais Nin and, those I am not happy saying it, Helen Gurley Brown.

Those were heady years.

Still, in a Tatler interview in 2015, Clark was definitely hopped up on the Uber Kool - Aid, as were many in those headier years: «This is the most impressive set of people I have ever come across, so many future leaders of Fortune 500 companies are going to come from Uber.»

Not exact matches

The Toronto market is still exhibiting plenty of «boom behaviour,» says David Madani of Capital Economics, thanks to purchases made several years ago during the heady days of the market.

It's been a heady few years for the Kremlin.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

After a heady few years in which important new gizmos appeared just about every week, 2013 was more of an iterative time bereft of that One Big Thing.

The spouse of a former Amazon white collar worker writing in Quartz explained the culture this way: «Our first years were heady and dazzling....

This year brought heady days for business: Stocks broke records, we got a new iPhone, and cryptocurrencies soared.

2014 may have seen heady times for corporate acquirers, but it was also the year of the rebuffed suitor.

However, activity in the housing market has slowed noticeably from its heady pace earlier in the year.

NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Twitter Inc shares jumped 73 percent in a frenzied trading debut that drove the seven - year - old company's market value to around $ 25 billion and evoked the heady days of the dot - com bubble.

The real estate market has strongly favoured the Sellers over the past couple of years — remember the «heady» bidding wars, multiple offer headlines, and «holding offers» strategy?

When Lynas started down the path of building the largest rare - earths processing plant outside of China several years ago, the price of rare earths was at heady levels.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Custer is a knockdown shooter and heady floor general, finishing the year with a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio.

Eleven years later Ranieri has returned to the Premiership with Leicester City and the Italian is very surprised that Wenger has not won the title since those heady days.

Rather than crumbling, as Arsenal midfields have been wont to do in the past two years, the Ramsey - Xhaka midfield could give Arsenal the structure to play away from home, much like a pairing of Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey once did, in the heady days of 2013 and victories at Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

Griezmann has scored 15 goals this season in the Rojiblancos of Atléti but hasn't hit the heady heights of the last two years, when Diego Simeone's side challenged for La Liga as well as the Champions League.

It has been a difficult year for the WFP after its heady success of the 2009 NYC elections, thanks largely to a federal investigation and a protracted legal battle with former Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.

Less than a year after the heady celebrations of election victory, David Cameron faces the possibility of losing the EU, losing Scotland and presiding over the death of the British steel industry.

These are heady days for bean counters in Albany as the Legislature heads into one of the busiest weeks of the year for the state budget.

When Nana Addo Dankwa Afufo - Addo, announced a year ago, as the leading opposition contender for the presidency, that if elected to the highest office in Ghana he would ensure that a factory was established in every district, many Ghanaians dismissed his pronouncement as just another heady electoral campaign promise from a man desperate to win the support of the electorate,...

Recall the heady days of 2005 - 06, when the Democrats, who hadn't elected a majority in the county legislature in almost 30 years under the Republican - controlled multi-member at - large system in effect since 1967, were touting single - member elections as the end - all and be-all to curing the ills (read, jail debacle) of county government.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

This kind of moment has also enormous potential to help you face the end of your contract with a good feeling about what you have achieved, even if that isn't as much as you would have wished back in the heady days of year one.

For someone who worked through the heady days of the International Biological Programme thirty years ago, each chapter pumps adrenaline and speeds the fingers to the pile of reprint request cards.

This year is strong in both the public AND the private sectors of your life, bringing a heady mix of influence and introversion.

Kurtas are on a heady high on the fashion graph all year round.

This was certainly heady company for a new American director, not yet forty years old.

For two years, frat brother McConaughey balanced partying with admirable achievements in heady courses like property law and philosophy.

It may not have quite stuck the landing, but Alex Garland's Ex Machina was still one of the more entertaining sci - fi films of recent years, full of heady ideas and indelible performances.

It was almost two years ago that the cast of «Annihilation» assembled in London to shoot the ambitious and heady film.

«Woman, Thou Art Loosed,» which opens today nationwide, is the first theatrical film in 13 years from Mr. Schultz, one of the first black filmmakers to penetrate mainstream Hollywood in the heady 1970's.

Luca Guadagnino's new film, which adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student, is remarkable for how it turns literature into pure cinema, all emotion and image and heady sensation.

When Lee cooks up a stew this heady, one best recognize... the right film at the right time, Lee's most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years.

'' «Ex Machina» is one of the headiest and most impressive sci - fi debuts since «Moon,» and if we see more than a handful of movies better than it across the next twelve months, 2015 will be a terrific year,» said Oliver Lyttelton of The Playlist.

James Whale's 1931 film classic went wildly off - book to define cinema's long relationship with the text, and the past few years alone have seen adaptations both faithful (Danny Boyle's stage version, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating roles) and freestyle (I, Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful's heady stew, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein); even Ex Machina could be seen as an AI - themed retelling of the Frankenstein story.

It's one of the headiest and most impressive sci - fi debuts since «Moon,» and if we see more than a handful of movies better than it across the next twelve months, 2015 will be a terrific year.

Clearly, this extraordinary, shattering film was too heady a concoction for most awards - givers — even the off - agenda National Society of Film Critics, who bafflingly named Godard's Goodbye to Language as the year's best.

The film takes place in New York City over the course of several years in the heady literary period of the late 1920's and early 1930's.

Films like Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, and Alain Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad frequently employ filmic techniques that place the viewer in a heady, alienated state of mind; think of the discontinuity editing employed in Breathless, the gritty cinema vérité style of Cléo, or the trance - inducing tracking shots in Marienbad.

What Gerwig does best is acutely capture the heady blur of the last year of high school, when old things gradually matter less and less as new opportunity and excitement tantalizingly tease on the horizon.

This would be a heady moment for any Congressional staffer, but it had particular resonance to Lafargue, coming only two years after she had become a U.S. citizen.

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It's been a heady couple of years for The STEM Academy at Bartlett Middle School in Savannah, Georgia.

In 1961, it was the fastest production car in the world with the ability to top 150 mph — heady stuff 50 years ago.

Such heady talk is consistent with the confidence executives display for Smart, which throughout its 8 - year existence has been a constant drain on its corporate parent.