Word: spectacularisms
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...government's backtracking came after months of fraught debate over its rugby team - South Africa's surest hope in any sport of capturing a world title. While the Springboks played a spectacular tournament, they did so with few black players, despite coming from a country with an 80% black majority. All but six of the 30-man rugby squad were white, and only two Springboks of color played in the World Cup final...
...pretty cool feeling.” Taken individually, Davis’ accomplishments are remarkable: he is a Division I athlete in two sports, and his hobbies include long-distance running. But the fact that he is at a preeminent university makes it all the more spectacular. Though Davis has “doubles” four times a week and “triples” twice a week (he guesses practice totals about 25 hours a week), he says maintaining his academics is not the hardest part of being an athlete. “It’s trying...
...days after her roughest night as a candidate - the Oct. 30 Democratic presidential debate - Hillary Clinton could be found ambling along a spectacular bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in a town called Clinton, Iowa, with former Vice President Walter Mondale, a ghost of Democratic disasters past. It was the photo op for an endorsement that seemed a potential kiss of death. Mondale is a smart and decent man, but he ran the worst sort of cautious front-runner campaign for the nomination in 1984, was nearly upended by the younger, more dynamic Gary Hart in the primaries and was utterly...
...took a while, however, for Taylor to learn to emulate Lannon’s consistency. He was spectacular at times, but he also went through long stretches during that first season in which the chances were there but the goals never seemed to be. As a sophomore, his hopes of a breakout season were frustrated by a leg injury that forced him to spend a significant amount of time on the bench...
...semi-opera, the show’s main action is spoken, with interpolated musical tableaux called masques. The masques, which rarely advance the plot, are the instances where the show is at its most stylized, impressionistic, and ceremonial. There are pagan sacrifices, pastoral masses, and one spectacular encounter between the evil sorcerer Oswald, Cupid, and the tutelary spirit of the frost.The set design, which consists of sliding panels that close and open up, approximating an authentic baroque set, allows the production to move between the world of spoken dialogue and the rarified realm of the masques.The cast and crew speculate...