Word: spectacularity
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...with the sets for the new Broadway musical Hairspray. But his peculiar talent is taking the notion of entertainment to new places, not just restaurants and sports stadiums but also malls and hotels and even hospitals. The spaces he designs are intended to elicit an emotional response; they're spectacular, unexpected, piquant...
...presence. At other times, she seems more wobbly, not as if she doubts her faith but as if she doubts everything else--her place in this world most of all. A few weeks ago, she watched on the news as a plane fighting forest fires crashed in a spectacular fireball. One expected some reaction, but her eyes were distant. She said something vague about the world coming to an end, a thought that didn't seem to trouble her much. God calls, and you have to answer...
...history shows that when hopes are raised in Kashmir, they have merely found a greater height from which to fall. There is plenty to fear. The Indian army says the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the main Pakistani militant group in Kashmir, is planning a "spectacular"?a terrorist attack designed to sabotage the election. Indian intelligence claims to have intercepted a Sept. 1 radio conversation between an LeT unit inside Kashmir and its commander. TIME obtained a transcript of the recording, which ran like this...
PHILANTHROPY Private purchases of wilderness areas received at least a temporary boost with the surging stock markets of the 1990s and the billionaires they created. One of the most spectacular deals was the 750,000-acre acquisition of temperate rain forest in southern Chile by Doug Tompkins, who has headed the North Face and Esprit clothing companies. Tompkins spent some $15 million to acquire Pumalin Park, which stretches from the Chilean coast to Argentina. He is now buying land on the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina to establish a reserve there. Other big private purchasers include Alan Weeden...
...Even in death, Elvis's commercial success is unparalleled; he's sold more records (1 billion worldwide) than any other artist in history, and his estate is priceless. Given his spectacular popularity, it's easy to forget that when he first came on the national scene in the 1950s, Elvis was considered highly subversive...