Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Making spectacular use of her overhead smash and strong net game, Martha Roberts captured the third slot, bettering Laura Weissman, 6-4, 7-6, in what turned out to be the decisive match for the Crimson...
...dwarfish cripple of exalted birth, absinthe-sodden and dead at 37, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was perhaps the most spectacular peintre maudit of the late 19th century: a doomed dog of modernism, fit for Hollywood. No reputation can quite survive a movie like Moulin Rouge, and ever since its release in 1953 the popular image of Toulouse-Lautrec has been shaped by the sight of Jose Ferrer, legs bound, peering with lugubriously feigned interest up at the boiler-plated buttocks of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Thus Toulouse-Lautrec became one of the few artists most everyone has heard of, a guarantee...
Gold's rise of over 60% during the past twelve months to $385 per oz. has been spectacular, but that goes for its gyrations too. Though investors by the thousands routinely speculate on possible price movements of the yellow metal by buying and selling so-called futures contracts on commodities markets, trading in the actual gold itself is much more limited, and a mere handful of big investors can and do bring about significant changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain...
...doesn't even crack a smile. He just scores the first hoop of the year for the Celtics, and follows it up seconds later with a full-court lob that catches M.L. Carr with two strides to go to the hoop. Fans go wild, Bird makes a few more spectacular passes, and then he sits down. He isn't the standout, not until the next night in Cleveland when he sinks 12 of 17 shots and scores 28 points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section 80. The guy with the bottle stayed awake most...
...have often been asked for my most thrilling moment in public service. I have participated in many spectacular events. But the moment that moved me most deeply has to be that cool, autumn, Sunday afternoon while the shadows were falling over the serene French landscape and that large quiet room, hung with abstract paintings, was illuminated only at the green