Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pattern of the game then took over. The Harvard defense, which had been no less than spectacular before this game, just didn't have the spunk Saturday. Restic said the defense "didn't play with the same intensity it has in the past weeks in the first half...
...jeopardy. Two years ago, for $265,000, the novice developer had bought an incomparable old factory building for conversion into 21 condominium apartments and several offices. The 19th century structure, designated a historical landmark because it has one of the oldest cast-iron facades in the Northeast, commands spectacular views of Boston. Every unit in the planned conversion was sold before Deane went to the bank for his building loan. With 10% up front from every investor in the building and all the cash he could pull together, Deane was able to swing a loan of $1.6 million. The project...
...speech was an aptly symbolic ending to the Pope's spectacular American tour. Throughout it he had propounded a vision of justice and unselfish dedication that rebuked the secular and self-indulgent elements in American culture. Toward the end of the journey, John Paul had turned increasingly to internal Roman Catholic Church issues. On these matters, too, his message was uncompromising. The theme was, in the words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that...
Bova conveys his message entertainingly. His writing is competent, if not spectacular, and while the "futuristic technology" involved--killer satellites (gasp!) and moon bases--is old hat to science fiction fans, the interplay between science and politics and the bitter metamorphosis of Chester Arthur Kinsman should keep readers interested...
...where Shaplen has chosen to write, he has done a spectacular job. For the expert on the Vietnam war or the student who has never heard of Kuala Lumpur. A Turning Wheel is required reading. Shaplen's ability to preach without being pretentious and to find the personal thread among the sweep of revolution is extraordinary. If his vision of Asia's future is hesitant, then he has learned more than most writers and journalists