Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundreds of wines were classified into five levels of quality, but Petrus was not even ranked. For many decades after that, Bordeaux traders disdained Petrus and other wines from Pomerol in favor of more prized labels from the Medoc, Sauternes and Graves regions. But the 1947 Petrus was so spectacular that word of the chateau began to spread throughout France...
...Calderon and driven home hard by Jim Keltner's full-torque drumming, is the album's centerpiece, a contemporary street epic set in a Southern California barrio, where none of the characters get a chance to dream or a clear shot at a fair shake. It is a truly spectacular song, fired by a heart that is still romantic and forged by a political spirit that will accept no alibis...
...Their first line is a powerhouse," White said. The freshman netminder stopped 42 shots of the Brown on-slaught, many in spectacular fashion...
February 4: The Big Green embarrases Harvard in the first half in Hanover; the Crimson manages only 28 percent shooting from the floor while being outscored 44-25. Harvard stages a gutsy second half comeback but still loses by 11, spoiling yet another spectacular individual performance by Keffer (whose 28 points figures second-best in the all-time Crimson record book...
...although the team as a whole ended up on the losing side of the score, a spectacular Crimson effort produced upsets of two of the top singles players and the top doubles squad in the nation...