"Nine," for example, "was ahead of its time," he said.
By its monumentality and unique structure, it presents an exceptional example of military architecture of its time.
As a consumer in the US, my favourite example was the waaaaay-ahead-of-its-time Dana Carvey Show in 1996, which in the second episode, "The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show," featured Dana onstage surrounded by dancers in soda jerk costumes holding bottles of Mug while singing a warning to Dana not to anger the sponsor.
Their architect, Benjamin Baxt, prepared drawings for a restoration of No. 176 to its original form, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission asked them to preserve the 1938 building as an example of its own time, and they have given it an open, airy character that would have been lost in a 19th-century re-creation.
The work, made for the White Oak Dance Project in 2002 and paired with "Phaedra" as a more recent example of myth transformation, is certainly of its time in the games it plays.
But it really is funny to look back on all of that and, yeah, it was just an example of something being too ahead of its time.
Its jittery style derives as much from a poem like Gottfried Benn's "Monolog"+as from any novel of its time, for example when the wheels of Keetenheuve's train ("the Nibelungen Express") farcically stutter over the Rhine Maidens' chant "Wagalaweia".
It has been regarded as one of the defining examples of dance-oriented pop music of its time.
Mr. Garr is yet another example of how time has impacted the case.
Give me an example of a time you planned a project.
