And I knew that I was telling the story from a contemporary point of view".
Of course, D'Antoni also had some N.B.A. backcourt experience, was a big-time player in Italy, then coached Nash, the da Vinci of contemporary point guards, in Phoenix.
On the other hand, a contemporary pointed out that Tintoretto's style was formed by studying formal elements of the Tuscan school, especially those of Michelangelo, and pictorial elements derived from Titian.
The music sounds staggeringly contemporary, pointing toward some crucial attributes of our present jazz era even as it ratifies, more firmly than ever, the singular dynamism of Davis's 1960s quintet.
(Sometimes, Sher goes a little crazy making the contemporary point. In "Get Me to the Church on Time," for instance, he has chorus boys in veils and little else doing high kicks).
In this first volume, Some Luck, implicitly such a passionate portrait of a lost society, the obvious omission from the contemporary point of view is any consideration of America's enduring problem, the race question.
Marie Fournier, the fashion house's general manager, said: "Not only is Giles recognised as a designer with extraordinary talent, he has the gravitas and sensibility to re-interpret the rich heritage of Ungaro with a contemporary point of view".
While some architects were prepared to dismiss the modern movement as a conspiracy to replace everything with glass boxes, Mr. Koolhaas reinterpreted modern New York from a contemporary point of view.
If this ambitious novel has a contemporary point, it may be that, in the age of the computer (which Diderot predicted), the tree of knowledge has grown so far above the human capacity to scale it that we now have to race along the information superhighway just to stand still.
The article, by Eugene Foster, a former professor of pathology at the University of Virginia, is accompanied by an essay from the pen of Joseph Ellis, of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, which duly makes the contemporary point: "Our heroes and especially presidents—are not gods or saints, but flesh-and-blood humans".There are technical similarities, too.
