Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizers had touted the event as a spectacular start to the 350th celebration, but many observers said that last night's Floating Birthday Party just didn't live up to its advance billing...
...Titanic that has not been photographed in beautiful detail." Woods Hole scientists plan to create a photomosaic of the entire ship, a project that will take several months. But Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, whose department financed the expedition, had already seen enough. Delighted with the spectacular outcome, he declared Ballard the Navy's "Bottom Gun" and presented him with a duly inscribed navy blue baseball...
...Walker has seen many challenges over theyears. He has become renowned for producing someof the world's most spectacular events, includingthe opening of Disneyland in 1955, the opening andclosing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games andmost recently, the fireworks show and specialeffects for Liberty Weekend...
...means, however, says Walker, will thisshow be "glitzy." Although his previous energieswere centered on the Liberty Weekend, Walker saysthat he had nothing to do with the 200 Elvisimpersonators. Walker did, however, organize theceremonies with French President FrancoisMitterand and President Ronald Reagan and theevening fireworks spectacular...
...Visually there will be some spectacular things," said Clara Wainwright, coordinator of the floating birthday party, which is free and open to the public. Wainwright, the Cambridge artist who founded the Boston New Year's Eve celebration First Night, said that the floating extravaganza will also feature laser pictures projected onto a 50-foot high water screen...