Word: grandest
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RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR. Like its Rockefeller Center neighbors -- a towering fir tree and a glistening ice rink that displays the endlessly watchable gyrations of amateur skaters -- this New York City bring- the-family pageant is one of the grandest holiday traditions in the U.S. Satisfyingly the same from year to year, yet spruced up just enough, the fast- moving script mingles Charles Dickens, Santa Claus and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with carols and hymns. The climactic Nativity scene features camels, donkeys and other live animals. This year's production serves up dazzling special effects and opulent costumes...
Tsavo, the country's largest wildlife reserve, was once the grandest elephant sanctuary in Kenya. Now it is a case study of what has gone wrong -- and how the elephant may yet be saved. Tsavo stretches over 8,000 sq. mi., an area the size of Israel. In the mid-1960s, 40,000 elephants thundered amid the scrub thorn, acacia and baobob trees. Last year's aerial survey spotted only 5,363 live elephants in and around the park, and 2,421 carcasses. The survivors are skittish creatures, often clustered in fear and quick to flee at the scent...
...director of Field of Dreams. "You can't force him to do something that's false," says Robinson. "He marches to his own Walkman." Or maybe to his own Victrola. For Costner is both a harbinger of the postimperial American male and a throwback to heroes of Hollywood's grandest days...
...James I and from 1625 to 1641 under Charles I), he acquired a Bernini-like authority. Through the example of his most famous buildings, such as the Queen's House in Greenwich and the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall -- which, with its ceiling paintings by Rubens, is one of the grandest collaborations of talent in the 17th century -- Jones guided English architecture out of its Elizabethan mannerism. He led it into an Italian grandeur and amplitude, based on Roman and Venetian models but with its own distinctive qualities. It was, as he wrote himself, "sollid, proporsionable according to the rulles, masculine...
...grandest film folly since Heaven's Gate! The $40 million pratfall! The project that put Columbia Pictures in the commode! Even Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen, the 18th century adventurer and fabulist on whose alleged exploits this film is based, might pause before telling such tales of artistic profligacy. But Terry Gilliam has the wounds to prove...