That game sparked a meteoric ascent that culminated with the Brooklyn prodigy's epochal world championship win in 1972.
The next song, "One Drop," is a sprightly bit of reggae that revisits Lydon's youth in Finsbury Park and serves as a reminder that he was, among other things, a hip-hop pioneer, thanks to his collaboration with Afrika Bambaataa on the epochal "World Destruction".
He was wearing a dark suit jacket over a T-shirt imprinted with the chess notation for Bobby Fischer's eleventh move in the third game of his epochal world-championship match against Boris Spassky, which took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1972 — a move that surprised nearly everyone, including Spassky, and helped reverse the momentum of the match.
It was almost exactly a century ago that our European ancestors began a bloody, epochal-changing world war that set in motion the tragic events of the next four or five decades.
A wonderfully rendered re-imagineering of the epochal 1939 New York World's Fair became the movie's 1943 "World Exposition of Tomorrow".
The document in the show that most exuberantly illustrates the usefulness of the list as organizing principle is a chronology drawn up around 1966 by the Abstract Expressionist Ad Reinhardt in which, year by year, he lists epochal events in world or art history side by side with watershed moments in his own life; for example: "1918 — Peace.
Deficits that used to only appear during epochal times like World War II are now the norm.
But could re-imagining history – especially something so epochal as the Second World War – actually lessen the impact of what happened?
But equally, art that doesn't notice, or remains unaffected by, epochal shifts in the world it inhabits, is variously asleep, suffocatingly self-absorbed or simply not looking.
Therefore, this mutual project is an essential precondition for the creation of the noosphere receiving its global character where the noosphere receives the character of, as Hub Zwart emphasises, "a conscious reshaping of the world, an epochal transformation affecting the entire planet" (Zwart 2016b, p. 403).
It can be said without exaggeration that this epochal work is directly responsible for, among other things, an effective universal health care system, world peace, smooth-running public transportation and significant declines in global warming and the divorce rate.
