Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unorthodox pod-at least where the issues were concerned. For their part, both candidates have protested that there were marked differences between them. When they agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences...
...dissolve the floors of memory and identity, becloud the boundaries separating reality and illusion, return the traveler momentarily to his primal, psychic self-all without benefit of hallucinogens? Such was the offer being made last week by Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. To bring off the most spectacular environmental light show ever staged, the gallery had assembled $400,000 worth of materials and labor in its "Magic Theater," a kind of transistorized tunnel of light designed by eight leading U.S. light, kinetics and environmental artists...
...Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
...seems to be an ideal Act II for what has be come known as the New Boston. In Act I-the fine, sometimes brilliant administration of John Collins-the city was dramatically saved from nearly three-quarters of a century of inelegant decay by a variety of bold, even spectacular renewal projects. Business confidence, lost by a succession of amiable but frequently corrupt mayors, was restored, private investment increased, and "the Hub," as its citizens still sometimes like to call it, once more was the center of something...
...Chicago Daily News had a phony invitation printed so her society editor could attend the 1967 wedding of Republican Senator Charles Percy's daughter Sharon Lee to Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. Crusty Harry Romanoff, 76, of the Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details of the crime from a policeman by pretending to be the Cook County coroner...