Word: extravaganza
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Sparked by the increasing popularity of golf travel, WWG has been averaging a 17% growth rate for several years. At prices ranging from $1,000 for a weekend at Pebble Beach to $40,000 for a country-hopping golf extravaganza, 500 groups traveled on the company's exotic tours in 2004--double the number of those taking such trips...
...like Beyoncé in a bootyliciously short skirt. On Saturday, Destiny's Child and more than 100 other acts sang in front of more than 1.6 million concertgoers--and a TV audience of over 2 billion (the shows are also available on AOL)--for Live 8, a 10-city music extravaganza that organizer Bob Geldof called "the greatest concert ever." The free concerts in all the G-8 countries, plus South Africa, were meant to raise not money but awareness of poverty in Africa ahead of this week's G-8 summit in Scotland. Of course...
...that presents Bachelorette Trista Sutter as a celebrity is not going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...
Blustery conditions did little to temper the enthusiasm of Saturday’s Penn Relays. Attendance over the three-day track extravaganza totaled 108,809, and those on hand witnessed several stellar performances—although many Crimson athletes didn’t have their best showing...
...visited by a floating island powered by a Dutch windmill. Sound familiar? God, I hope not. This is the basic plot of “Feel Good Inc.,” the long-awaited new release from the world’s preeminent animated brainy hip-hop all-star extravaganza Gorillaz (and De La Soul guest on this track!), and it’s hot. It’s not pushing any boundaries, (and, hey, what is these days?) but the video is visually pleasing, and helium-injected earth-chunks being chased by helicopters into the sunset always make...