Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...than two years - albeit two very splashy, highly commented upon years - Portfolio magazine is closing. Since its revenues for the first quarter of this year were almost 61% lower than they were for the same period last year, the news is not that surprising. But it's still a spectacular flameout for a title that started with such fanfare - and a reported $100 million slush fund - a mere 21 issues ago. Where did all the money...
...painful for me even to type this - Walk in a Circle Around Her. The audience gasps in a mixture of wonder and horror; it's not that the body can't do this, it's that the body maybe oughtn't. Whatever the crowd reaction, the maneuver is nonetheless spectacular. (You can see the entire routine here on Youtube; Patterson's big moment comes about 4 min. 45 sec. into the clip...
...over the last several months, something funny has been happening in the commodities trade. After spectacular plunges, the prices of oil, copper, palm oil and others are rallying. This shouldn't be happening given the parlous state of the world economy. The International Monetary Fund this week cut its global growth forecast for 2009, predicting GDP would contract by 1.3%, the most severe recession since the 1930s. Yet oil is some 50% more expensive now than in December. Palm oil, which is used in a wide variety of manufactured foods, has surged by about 50% this year. "The only area...
...Cursi” reunites Luna, as goalie Beto, and García Bernal, as striker Tato, in a tragicomic tale of two Mexican “campesinos” in the city’s professional soccer world. When the sports agent Batuta (Guillermo Francella) stumbles upon two spectacular soccer-playing brothers at a pick-up game, he promises them a shot at a spot on a professional squad. With such promises of fame in Mexico’s Division I soccer leagues, Batuta unleashes the naïve farm boys into the capital city’s urban jungle...
...civil rights struggle, gains are made by spectacular boldness, and Newsom was spectacularly bold." - Kate Kendell, a gay rights activist, on Newsom's decision to let same-sex couples get married in San Francisco, The New Yorker...