Word: extravaganza
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...make you feel a little guilty that, despite adorable Colleen's uncontested status as America's sweetheart, you couldn't help but have lustful dreams about her mud-wrestling Susan the truck driver? Finally, didn't you secretly hope that the episode featuring Richard's naked birthday extravaganza would simply last forever...
...much as they could have if they'd seen this coming and milked advertisers from the start. But ads for the last hour are going for $600,000, and the whole three-hour extravaganza, with a trumped-up reunion after the finale, could pull in $17 million alone...
...opening night of the G.O.P. convention, Colin Powell--who doesn't need an alliterative catchphrase to make him seem compassionate or a four-day extravaganza to make him look presidential--strode onstage to the beat of his own drum. Like other speakers, he'd shown up earlier that day to get comfortable with the setting and pick up stage directions, including the prohibition on wearing a white shirt on TV. But unlike other speakers, Powell did not have to turn over his speech to the Bush high command. However, he did phone Bush that afternoon to alert him that...
...midst of this multimillion-dollar extravaganza, I've spoken with folks who've made their first trip to "the big city," laughed with them about the elaborate expense of the events and even amiably shared bar space with retired Reagan appointees...
...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...