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‘An age can be golden.’

[⟨det age.n⟩ golden.a]

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DC United need web developers (Behind the Badge) David Bentley wouldn’t cut it as an Offside blogger (The Spoiler) When was football’s golden age? (200 %) The great Gerrard and Lampard England debate, part 1,234,443 (Times Online) Why Platini’s attack on Wenger makes no sense whatsoever (The Run of Play) Gareth [.
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To everyone else, it will probably be viewed similarly to how we view the 50’s today, as a golden age where everyone was happy and times were good.
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Each period seems to construct its own mythical golden age “twenty years ago”.
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This occurs when a development (such as the rise of China, which pushes up the world price of oil) ushers in an unexpected new golden age (like that of the donkey in Achill Island).
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Just think how fortunate we are to have two great artists from that golden age of illustration who worked on opposite coasts give us the scoop on a third remarkable talent who, it turns out, worked on both.
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This Grant had a relatively minor career, and much of his early years were left unchronicled as to his origin, although his origin is likely similar to the golden age Ted Grant.
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Conversationalist in style, Oberst’s lyrics are rooted in an artistic space that is so clearly post Dylan’s golden age; and, perhaps more interestingly, post Dylan’s artistic decline too (if one dare call it that).
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The Cool Kids’ hiphop revisionism. by Larry Mizell Jr Conventional wisdom, whatever that is, holds the late ’80s to be hiphop’s’ ’ golden age,’ ’ back when hiphop music had substance, style, and – best of all – fun.
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Though the boxes containing savory delight have been banished By wheat products boasting fiber, protein and always less calories The doughboys remain statues of a golden age.
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The 1940s and 1950s are generally considered the “golden age” of Egyptian cinema.
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The golden age for programmers is over.
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This was the “golden age” of Cambodian cinema, and more than 300 movies were made during the era.
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And so is the people running the small beach club! : – ) Isola Bella was very popular with the moviestars of the golden age, but today the crowd is mostly Italians on holiday, although I did notice some people having Champagne lunch on the beach every day… which they actually had the last time we were there as well… and I’m pretty sure it was the same group of people; – ) Probably kept on doing it since the 50’s; – )!
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Since the golden age of alternative music, (or to me, the last time music was listenable – the 90s) Tricky has been churning out gems for albums, and unlike his contemporaries, his music transcends the years, and is still very much relevant today.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

GOLDEN AGE The golden age of Egypt was 20 dynasties lasting through 1254 B.C. There was a thousand years of drift until Alexander the Great, a Greek, arrived in 352, B.C. There was a succession of foreign rulers that lasted until 1952 when an army officer, Gamal Nasser, overthrew King Farouk, who was a Turk and the puppet of Great Britain.
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Graham): The Dent du Gant had remained unclimbed during the golden age of alpinism, and was a much – coveted peak in the 1870s, repelling many parties who attempted it mostly from the Rochefort ridge.
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Islamic golden age.
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With the requisite stability assured, Neuch tel entered its golden age, with commerce and industry (including watchmaking and lace) and banking undergoing steady expansion.
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Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment – for – profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards.
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Queried on 2013-05-26.