Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kimmel posted a shutout to close out her career with the Crimson, each of the four other seniors had a hand in the scoring, freshman Julie Sasner tied Harvard's single-season goal-scoring mark and freshman backup goalie Tracee Whitley came in at the end to make some spectacular saves...
...make the point, the 1,500 men of Colombia's U.S.-supported antinarcotics squad persevered in their search-and-destroy missions and, for a time, scored one spectacular victory after another. In early December, for example, they intercepted more than 550 kilos of high-grade cocaine, packed and readied for shipment at a rambling ranch known as Villa Julia, and flushed it down a sewer in nearby Medellin. Four days later, in northern La Guajira province, squad members came upon 1,054 kilos of pure coke that had been stashed in lunch boxes, leather pouches and even official-looking CARE...
...Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez, applauded John Paul's impact upon his country's poor. "It will raise their self-confidence and their consciousness of their own problems," he said. "The people have lived these days like a celebration." Peru was the Pope's last South American stop, and the spectacular settings were hardly more dramatic than his words. After speaking at the Incan fortress of Sacsahuaman to 80,000 Indians, Pope John Paul chose the impoverished region surrounding Ayacucho to make his boldest political gesture since his visit to Poland in 1983. The area has been terrorized for four years...
...dress rehearsal, he played the crippled hero on real crutches.) Individual honors go to Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar as the soulful Serena and the dashing Gregg Baker as the villainous Crown. The production, designed and directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring the slice-of-life vigor that is the opera's chief asset...
...Nasdaq has shot up 12.6%. In the past two weeks the daily volume of trading in Nasdaq shares has averaged 97 million shares, in contrast to 60 million in 1984. OTC stocks are often so inexpensive that even a point rise in their value can mean spectacular returns to investors. Shares in ONYX + IMI, a microcomputer firm, have gone up 81.8%, to 2 1/2, and Comtech, a satellite- communications company, has increased 157.9%, to 3 1/16...