As a present-day parent, I would like to be able to say that I virtuously took it back to the Bryn Mawr station lost and found, but I am certain that this did not happen.
As a present-day national park destination, this is what we found: perfect spring meadows filled with a rich concentration of wildflowers; old and new growth forests; birds, insects and other wildlife, and an enchanting valley floor... socked by the man-made reservoir that is fed by the Toulumne River.
This is Reitman's first proper venture away from comedy, as well outside a present-day setting.
When alive, the largest specimen probably weighed about 500 kg (about 1,100 pounds), roughly the same weight as a present-day cow.
(Only a turn by Mr. Downey — who plays most of the movie in blackface, as a present-day white Australian trying to get inside the head of an African-American grunt during the Vietnam War — received as warm a reaction).
The call for "bread and roses," as a present-day union organizer named Sam Shapiro (Adrien Brody) explains in the movie, originated among the striking textile workers in Lowell, Mass., in 1912.
The only early trading post to survive as a present-day town is Fort Benton, which was established in 1846 and became an important port on the Missouri River.
Biswas (1982) categorized the Cambay rift as a present-day active rift that continues to be a low-lying area.
Four years into his tenure, the onetime critic of President George W. Bush finds himself cast as a present-day Mr. Bush, justifying the muscular application of force in the defense of the nation while detractors complain that he has sacrificed the country's core values in the name of security.
FOOTSTEPS Articles in this series will periodically use the essays or memoirs of a notable author as the inspiration for a present-day journey.
And there's the sort from which the names must remain redacted – such as the tale of a present-day theatrical knight who, in his youth, excused his catastrophic lateness by claiming that his mother had died, obliging her to attend decades of first nights in discreet anonymity.
