Word: spectacularisms
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That is precisely why John Galliano's Dior haute couture show in Paris was so spectacular. The designer, who seemed to have been languishing lately under directives to create salable clothes, let his wacky imagination soar again--this time from the couture ateliers of Paris all the way to the cherry-blossom-filled gardens of Kyoto. One after another, models in geisha makeup and with orchids and ikebana arrangements caught up in their hair emerged in glorious confections that recalled hand-painted kimonos, origami folds and even the bark of a bonsai tree. Backstage, the designer described the show...
...their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy. Each hates the other, and one of them, Barnes, is dangerously mad. Their examples, and Chris' rage, will forge the young soldier into a state-of-the-art Stone Age murder machine. He will forever carry visions of their spectacular and meaningful deaths...
Tuesday, Jan. 23. The day we buried you. "Yes," you once said, "we Turkish Armenians do have a claim to the soil of this country, but not to take it away, as some accuse us of secretly plotting, but to be buried deep under it." Your funeral was spectacular. Tens of thousands marched. They carried signs that said, WE ARE ALL HRANT, WE ARE ALL ARMENIANS...
...seeking the top job in the Serbian government. Would you settle for anything less? Since voters in the pro-democracy camp just gave a spectacular lead to my party, and, since the party designated me as its pick to be Prime Minister, the answer to your question can only...
...High Line is a 1.5-mile elevated railway track that served for decades as a way to bring freight into lower Manhattan. By 1980 the trains had stopped running and the tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern...