Word: spectacularity
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...Mombasa can be just as telling, making it appear that terrorists can hit anyone anywhere and the threat to the U.S. and its friends is global. Some experts worry too that the current taste for soft targets might be intended to divert attention while al-Qaeda prepares a spectacular attack...
...police unit that carried out surveillance on the General, believes Cahill wanted to embarrass the Irish government. "He hated the State because of what happened to him as a child in [reform] school," O'Carroll says. "He had been beaten like an animal, and abused. Carrying out a 'spectacular' was his revenge." But the heist proved to be Cahill's undoing. He hooked up with the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force to get rid of the paintings - and that made him an I.R.A. target. He was killed in 1994, the victim of the last official i.r.a. assassination before the Good Friday...
...build brand awareness. It took a year to find the first location, a former nunnery backing onto the botanical gardens in the heart of Milan. The old building has been gutted and given a new glass facade; teakwood balconies off the rooms on the top floors to allow spectacular views of the gardens. The $70 million hotel will offer its 58-rooms starting at j600 a night. There will be a swimming pool with gold-mosaic tiles, a spa, a meditation garden with smoking moss and a restaurant run by a (yet unnamed) famous chef. The rooms will have...
...been the world's most frequently portrayed character in theater and film. But the current French interest in Napoleon may also arise from nostalgia for the nation's former glory. Modern French world-beaters - from former business tycoon Jean-Marie Messier to the champion national football team - have suffered spectacular crashes. Napoleon did too, of course, but the new renditions of his life focus on his victories. "The events surrounding Napoleon's downfall and eventual death ensured his legend would only grow," comments de Caunes, whose film focuses on the St. Helena exile. "But even before that...
...mosque and the restoration of the temple was henceforth the core concern of virtually every Indian. A nationalist tide of wounded pride swept India. Tension between Hindus and Muslims soared. RSS membership hit 4.5 million, and the BJP burst onto center stage. In December 1992, in a spectacular demonstration of religious fervor, a crowd of Hindu demonstrators broke down fences protecting the mosque, climbed onto its three domes and, within hours, tore it apart brick by brick. It was a lasting lesson in the power of political theater...