And if the thought of Stravinsky's epochal score used for yet another dance piece is less than thrilling, it seems a particularly good fit for Mr. Foniadakis's urgently kinetic choreography, with its endlessly curving, surging torsos and buckling, circling legs and arms.
Twenty years ago, epochal pop historical moments used to congregate around albums rather than songs, and within five years of its release Paul's Boutique was acclaimed the Pet Sounds of hip-hop.
I would receive long news releases from this or that label, explaining the arcane techniques of baking, resin-coating, whiskering and sanding used to create an epochal pair of worn-in jeans.
The really important, epochal, provocative stuff – the music that, to use a ghastly phrase, carries the conversation – is clearly happening in hip hop and R&B.
It has brought us to an epochal moment — the culmination of all human invention.
Deficits that used to only appear during epochal times like World War II are now the norm.
Using his production team from his epochal Bayreuth "Ring," Mr. Chéreau has created an erotic, sometimes overwrought realization of Racine's blend of elegant poetry and primal passion.
Those new technologies are key to the latest rounds of global organizing, from the World Trade Organization actions of 1999, put together by email and epochal in their impact, to the Arab Spring, which used email, cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, and other means, to Occupy Wall Street.
Hardly anybody used typewriters these days, but, with the epochal change in clientele brought on by computers, Drummond's business shifted in small ways and remained profitably intact.
His film "Shoah," the epochal reconstruction of the murder of Jews in the Holocaust, uses no archival footage, but, rather, elicits the past by the spoken testimony of those who experienced it.
