Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles Olympics became a spectacular dramatization of a renascent American entrepreneurial energy and optimism. The driving force behind them was Peter Victor Ueberroth. For his supreme skill in making the Games work, and work brilliantly, Ueberroth is TIME's Man of the Year...
There were other symptoms and ceremonies of healing. The Fourth of July was the most spectacular celebration since the Bicentennial. The Statue of Liberty, swaddled in scaffolding, began a $30 million, two-year overall refurbishment, which has come to be regarded, sometimes almost subliminally, as a symbol of a larger national renovation...
Perhaps the most spectacular government action came when Warren M. Anderson, 63, Union Carbide's U.S. chairman, flew to Bhopal later in the week. Immediately after his arrival, he and two officials of the company's Indian subsidiary were arrested and charged with "negligence and criminal corporate liability" and "criminal conspiracy," which under Indian law carries a maximum penalty of death. Instead of being taken to prison, the three executives were detained at the company's comfortable Bhopal guesthouse, surrounded by 50 armed guards to protect them from possible mob attacks, and cut off from communication with the outside world...
HOFFMANN'S UNDERSTATED tone and his sense of detail make his storytelling effective. When Fritz sees his gifts he takes "two or three rather spectacular jumps in the air." Later before Marie walks through a hall close door into the land of the dolls, Hoffmann notes that. "I don't think any of you children would have hesitated for a moment to follow the honest good natured nutcracker who never had a wicked thought in all his life." Jumps for instance are not high they are rather spectacular. And he gently addresses his readers...
Among those who criticize the financial inefficiency of spectacular surgical experiments, the most common prescription is a greater emphasis on preventive medicine?immunization, examination, nutrition?and not just medicine but a healthier way of living. "Control smoking, alcohol, handguns, overeating and seat belts," says Speer, "and that would be a new world." Sensible though such suggestions are, they are highly colored by wishful thinking...