Word: spectacularisms
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...Crimson going by scoring a basket inside and adding a jumper after a layup from junior forward Matt Stehle. Brown forward P.J. Flaherty scored to trim the lead to five, but senior guard Kevin Rogus drained a three pointer, and captain Jason Norman capped the run with a spectacular spinning drive and finger-roll, making the score 41-31 with 15:46 to play...
...return to human scale wasn't always on the minds of architectural visionaries?sometimes just the opposite. The second segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves, endless systems of fabrication in which the built world is everything and nature is just that green fluff that Wordsworth used to go on about. These are dystopian imaginings, the last word in alienation, though it isn't always clear whether the architects who conceived them were much troubled by that...
Then, the Crimson struck for six unanswered goals, marking a spectacular comeback in the belly of the Yale Whale and causing then-captain Kenny Smith ‘04 to observe, hopefully, that “this is the type of game that can push a team over the hump...
...just his second year out of St. Vincent--St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, is already far ahead of the pretenders. The physical package is awesome: 6 ft. 8 in., 240 lbs., with the speed of a guard and the strength of a power forward. His game is spectacular. James combines Jordan's ease at filling up the box score (and the stands) with a ruthless instinct to win, a trait that Hill, a gentleman, and Carter, a diffident performer, surely lack. And like Jordan, James knows he can't do it alone. In fact, he is a complete...
...burden of my dullness"--which the reader understands is just the world's inability to find its way into his steady, lustrous stream of consciousness. At one point, trying to muster sympathy for Sylvia's addiction, he recollects his own druggy days. "For a moment, I recall those spectacular arcs of time when I was the solitary pinprick of sensation in the whole wide world, the one heroic lawbreaker in our dutiful universe...