Who knows what would have become of me had I grown up in an era where my idols, the preeminent examples for success from communities like mine, limited their content to the four or five themes that dominate today's hip hop landscape.
Among its many commercial specializations, obsidian was probably preeminent, for the Teotihuacanos had gained control of the mines of green obsidian above the present-day city of Pachuca, in Hidalgo.
"Glaciers, especially tropical glaciers, are the canaries in the coal mine for our global climate system," Lonnie Thompson, a preeminent glaciologist from Ohio State University, said during a climate change forum in Peru last summer.
Shortly thereafter, a professor of mine at Brandeis, who contributed many thoughtful analyses to the preeminent genre magazine of its time, Cinefantastique, introduced me to its publisher and enfant terrible, the late, great Frederick S. Clarke.
I did persuade him to visit Spelman College in the spring of 1991, where a dozen very lucky students of mine got to see one of the 20th century's preeminent mathematicians give an accessible talk at the induction ceremony of the local branch of Pi Mu Epsilon, the nation's mathematics honorary society.
Preeminent Child Health Policy Research.
I like the swan, preeminent.
Robert Downey Jr is Hollywood's preeminent deliverer of wisecracks.
HUBRIS is the preeminent tendency in politics.
Bill was a preeminent antitrust practitioner.
Three preeminent musicians are on Saturday's bill.
