Word: extravaganza
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Highlighted by a potential monster truck extravaganza and a free flow of beer, the Monster Truck Coalition--a five-member group of Harvard Law School Council representatives--is trying to add levity to law school life...
...production threatens to swallow the charm of this genuinely talented troop. "Saltimbanco" comes equipped with a live New Age band, a light show and a smoke machine that won't quit. This accumulated wattage makes some of the stagier numbers feel more like the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganza than the quirky, stylish acts for which Cirque du Soleil has won praise...
...magazine shows and "soft" dramas like L.A. Law and Northern Exposure. Violence is largely confined to a few reality shows, Cops, America's Most Wanted, and true-crime TV movies -- which are abundant but whose violence looks positively prim beside the brutality of any Lethal Weapon sequel or Schwarzenegger extravaganza...
...affirms the Beach Boys' place in pop history. THEATER Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the best British play in years. BOOKS David Halberstam engrossingly surveys The Fifties. A brilliant, flawed novel by Richard Powers. CINEMA Rookie of the Year strikes out. SHOW BUSINESS Disney offers an uninspired stage extravaganza...
...rock shows ever staged? If you're U2, the indefatigable Irish quartet, the answer is you don't. Riding the wave of its audacious 1991 album, Achtung Baby, the group has spent the past 15 months hop-scotching the globe with the Zoo TV tour, a futuristic, high-voltage extravaganza that has packed stadiums from Berlin to Los Angeles, and is scheduled to end in Australia next November. But just when most bands would be lurching for the finish line, U2 has struck while the muse is hot and re-energized itself by releasing an album of fresh material...