Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weavers galvanize everyone around them. The already spectacular level of drinking escalates, as Alun and his mates gather each midday at the Bible and Crown, the local pub. From there, it is on to expeditions in search of other watering houses that have not been rendered horrible by modern redecoration. At one such ruined spot, Peter pays ironic tribute to the affluent society: "In the bad old days only very rich people could hope to enjoy surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss...
...their invasion of the U.S. property market, the Japanese have spent spectacular sums. Mitsui Real Estate Development paid $610 million for the Exxon Building in Rockefeller Center last December, the highest price ever fetched by a Manhattan office tower. Last November, Daiichi America Real Estate paid an all-time top price for U.S. retail space when it shelled out $94 million, or about $1,000 per square foot, for the Tiffany building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Nissei Realty turned over an estimated $135 million last November for a half share of San Francisco's 38-story Crocker Bank Tower...
...soaring life-style that perhaps brought the downfall of Martin Siegel. Besides keeping a posh Manhattan apartment, he and his wife built a spectacular cedar-and-glass beachfront home on Connecticut's Long Island Sound, complete with tennis court and gym. He typically commuted to work in a chartered helicopter. Siegel reportedly met with Boesky in New York City's Harvard Club in 1982 and bemoaned his compensation at Kidder, Peabody, which he viewed as inadequate even though it was already well into six figures. That lunch date allegedly led to the tip-selling arrangement in which Siegel boosted...
...collision between Catholic faith and morals on the one hand and Masai tradition on the other is spectacular. Perhaps the flies had come to seem to Davis the outward sign of the devil's presence here in the Masai enk'ang, home of polygamists and breezy pagan fornicators. But the goat was an ancient symbol of the devil. The theology was confusing. Perhaps Davis merely intended to endow one fly-free little life in the dense air of the boma...
Last weekend, Draper stopped 40 of 42 shot to lead Vermont to wins over Army and Princeton. Draper is now ranked seventh among ECAC goaltenders--and with the crowd behind him in Gutterson Field House, he is capable of turning in spectacular performances...