Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timely substitution. Karanas scored two spectacular aces. Score...
...resolved the matter peacefully. He published an article proclaiming the "end of history," a result of the worldwide triumph of Western liberal democracy. Hence this is the posthistoric age, a fourth dimension in which the human pageant terminates in a fuzz of meaningless well-being. Intellectuals sometimes nurture a spectacular narcissism about the significance of the age they grace...
Aside from a few major hits such as Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid and When Harry Met Sally . . ., Columbia's movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during...
...senior also scored Harvard's last touchdown on a 6-yd. run and made a spectacular catch in traffic early in the fourth quarter to set up his second touchdown reception from Perry. If Bianchi, who leads Harvard receivers with 16 catches for 259 yards, can give the Army secondary headaches, imagine what he can do to Brown and Yale. More to come...
...wrong--I loved going to the U.S Open. I saw spectacular shotmaking. I saw inspirational intensity. I saw Ivana Trump tell her bodyguard...