While Mr. Obama can scarcely hope for something as seminal as President Nixon's famous journey to Beijing, experts say he has the chance to forge a new relationship with China that takes into account its rising economic might.
Twenty-one albums into a cult career, Richman is either unaware of the opportunity to capitalise on the post-Strokes mood, or uninterested in courting new fans, this despite his extended cameo in There's Something About Mary (a seminal work of a different kind) a few years ago.
His deadpan, bordering on drab, delivery works somehow, and while he always seems just one line away from saying "My name's John and I'm here to say," there's something incredibly charming about his seminal verse.
Later in his seminal novel, Flaubert does something very unexpected.
You sort of hope that this is a seminal moment and that something is done.
Notably missing, for example, are any of the Miami Generation, the nine Cuban-American artists who declared in a seminal 1983 show that something new, and newly Miamian, was being born.
Instead of the trenchcoats that have held center stage in the past, there were soft chiffon printed dresses, whose watery flowers and easy fit owed something to the designs of the seminal fabric artist Celia Birtwell.
I see it as something that was important -- even seminal -- for both of them.
His most famous novel, "Fahrenheit 451," which concerns book burning, was written on a pay typewriter in the basement of the University of California, Los Angeles, library; his novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes" contains a seminal library scene.
