During a made-for-television purification ceremony to mark the groundbreaking, one of the orbs is cracked open, giving the world more of a Phase 2 than it bargained for: the orb turns out to be a latter-day Pandora's box, releasing a 12,000-year-old virus (apparently the actual cause of the Clovis disappearance) that ends up killing nearly everyone on the continent.
The newest is WeVest, of Berkeley, Calif., which has as its vice chairman Tom Seip, a former Charles Schwab executive who was the architect of the company's groundbreaking One Source mutual fund supermarket.
Truth to tell, the story is less than groundbreaking: one of the "courteous cutthroats" at the Annual Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair in upstate New York is murdered, the wrong person is arrested, and a down-to-earth dealer from New Jersey assigns herself the chore of finding the real killer.
At Friday's ceremony, a mound of dirt was piled in an air-conditioned tent with seven shovels ready for the groundbreaking ceremony, one for each of the speakers.
The New York Junior League announced on Tuesday the appointment of its first black president, characterizing the move as a groundbreaking one for an organization that has tried for years to cultivate a more socially and racially diverse image.
The daring, innovative project is the long-awaited follow-up to 2005's groundbreaking one-two punch comprised of Fijacion Oral, Volume 1 and Oral Fixation, Volume 2, a pair of albums which combined to sell over 12 million copies worldwide and secured the young Colombian-born singer's place among pop music royalty.
Their wedding, which is slated for spring 2018, will be a groundbreaking one for a few reasons: not only is Markle the first American to marry into the royal family since Wallis Simpson, she was also previously married.
(Jantzen's tasteful but groundbreaking one-piece followed women's entry into Olympic swimming events, in 1912).
Some biographers, like journalists, are looking for the scoop that will distinguish them from the crowd: if there is no such thing as a definitive biography, there might at least be a groundbreaking one, offering something that has never been seen or heard before.
It's not a particularly groundbreaking one, but in some ways that almost makes it more powerful: love for all, hatred for none.
