Word: spectacularity
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...summer temperature rises to 38?C as we enter the unshaded canyon. After two sweaty hours we reach Windbox Gorge, the most spectacular section of the trail. Here the path has been chiseled out of the sheer cliff wall; some sections narrow to less than 1 m. To our left, the trail drops nearly 70 m to the rushing waters. There is no handrail, forcing us to move carefully. There are no boats below: it's the first time I've ever been in the Gorges without the accompanying puttering of a motor and chattering tourists. Our solitude is complete...
Well, maybe that last one isn’t quite right. It’s not exactly unqualified appreciation. More like puzzlement, or even worse, ridicule. The Band looks funny on the field, our formations are not exactly spectacular, it’s hard to hear what our announcer is saying, we don’t always sound that great, we constantly laugh at our own inside jokes and we make funny hand signals when we sing songs that most undergraduates can’t identify. We certainly don’t “march.” We?...
...first half was less than spectacular for the Crimson, which failed to establish an offensive presence early. Cornell outshot Harvard in the first half, as the Crimson struggled against a Big Red defense that had allowed 0.33 goals per game in its three previous home games—including a 3-1 upset over No. 19 Penn State last Wednesday...
...production of Zorba does a remarkable job of engaging its audience, no doubt aided by its remarkable facilities. The North Shore Music Theatre is a theater-in-the-round about a half-hour outside of Boston with about 1,800 seats and technical capabilities that are staggering. Hydraulic lifts, spectacular lights and fluid scene changes help keep the show moving, and the audience pointing at whatever new lighting fixture was dropping, rising or spinning...
...events of Sept. 11 were spectacular in their suddenness, their enormity and their surprise. But everyday the world is plagued by more mundane battles, fought not with high technology but with hands and fists and stones. Genocide in Rwanda. Civil strife in the Congo. Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. These events were just as much an affront to justice as were the events of Sept. 11. And thus, by the rhetoric of an attack on American values anywhere being an attack on security everywhere, they should have warranted a meaningful U.S. response...