Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scoop, Doctor Octopus shakes it like a gorilla with a new toy, Hobgoblin tosses flaming pumpkins, Electro makes malefic use of a giant socket plug, Hydro Man spritzes everyone, and the scoop plummets what feels like hundreds of feet from the sky into concrete canyons that suddenly seem grand--Grand Guignol, that is. By the happy-ending salvation in a giant spiderweb, this out-of-body, out-of-mind experience reduces cynical theme parkers to burbling kids. "Gee," they say as they stagger out, "that was the best ride--ever!" And the Universal bosses raise their fists in an unspoken...
...will host its first regional since 1991 and bid for a repeat College World Series championship. In 1998, the No. 14 Trojans used 23 hits and a ninth-inning grand slam by outfielder Jason Lane to dispatch Pac-10 rival Arizona State in a 21-14 slugfest...
...goes on to win the tournament and national title in singles, it will mark the third out of four possible NCAA grand slam events that Blake has won this year...
...free who really light him up. They get brighter, chattier, taller when he's around. As he sings along with a heartrendingly mangled rendition of America the Beautiful by students playing with instruments donated by VH-1, the unsentimental general gets misty-eyed. At Colin Powell Elementary School in Grand Prairie, Texas, the kids wanted to talk about the mystery of how those two boys at Columbine with their BMW and pampered, obstacle-free days could have become so hopeless. A child asked the general if he ever got sad. "Something makes me sad every day," he answered, and said...
...been a grand season for American opera. First the New York City Opera and the Met produced Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men and Susannah, respectively, and now Menotti's The Consul--a tough, blunt cliff-hanger about political persecution--has finally made it to CD in a splendid live recording from last year's Spoleto Festival. The cast is solid; Richard Hickox's conducting, superb. Successfully premiered on Broadway in 1950 (yes, Broadway used to take such chances), The Consul is a little masterpiece of musical stagecraft whose grimly effective score and libretto haven't lost...