Word: extravaganza
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...over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company for $1.5 billion and become a partner with the Soviet Union in staging and televising an international sports extravaganza called the Goodwill Games...
Besides dance, the event featured a Cultural Fashion Extravaganza, showcasing a mix of traditional and modern Southeast Asian dress. Students sported everything from a Burmese princess’ dress to shorter, vibrant outfits designed by students from Wellesley...
This isn't a science-fiction extravaganza. Ishiguro wisely keeps the focus tight and close on everyday life. He follows the trio's feuds, their adolescent trysts (eventually they form a classic love triangle), their hopes and their slow awakening to and acceptance of the gruesome sacrifice that will be expected of them. ("After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" says Ruth.) Cut off from the world, the children become pathetically obsessed with anything that might give them a tiny taste of what life is like for normal people. Ruth's most deeply...
WILL WE GET TO WATCH? The only part of the wedding the couple have agreed to televise is the 45-minute religious blessing--a far cry from Charles' last TV-wedding extravaganza...
...languages and 163 countries. Now the Danes are getting ready to throw a 200th birthday bash for their most famous son. On April 2, the bicentennial of his birth, Denmark kicks off a global celebration of Andersen and his evocative stories with Once Upon a Time, a cultural extravaganza at the national soccer stadium in Copenhagen that portrays the author's life and works through music, theater and ballet. Tickets range from $60 to $460. tel: (45-70) 15 65 65; www.billetnet.dk. Then starting April 2, the "Greatest Fairy Tale" exhibition, located next to Rosenborg Castle in downtown Copenhagen, displays...