Word: spectacularity
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...minutes each way, will take you past the church and castle of San Giorgio to the local lighthouse at the tip of a promontory. A longer hike brings you to the 10th century Abbey of San Fruttuoso. It's two hours each way--but worth every minute for the spectacular vistas...
...Enter Michael Bay, who had wowed young audiences for Bruckheimer as director of Bad Boys, The Rock and Armageddon. "I felt the time was right for him to make a spectacular movie," says Bruckheimer, who is known for his loyalty. "Michael is his generation's Spielberg or Lucas." (Pearl Harbor's costume designer, Michael Kaplan, is the same guy who cut up sweatshirts for Bruckheimer's 1983 Flashdance.) With screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and found its heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today...
Ebbets Field was introduced to the bulldozers shortly after the Brooklyn Dodgers bolted for Los Angeles in 1957, leaving behind a less-than-spectacular apartment building and a million broken hearts. Brooklyn had loved its baseball team’s players, certainly—champions like Jackie Robinson, Pee-Wee Reese and Duke Snider as well as the more comical figures of earlier, more futile years...
...Paris had the backdrop of the century - for example, they were planning to hold the equestrian events in the Tuilieries. it would have been spectacular. And Toronto had a very compact, very interesting site proposal...
...when he is good, he is spectacular. Roth's 1959 debut, Goodbye, Columbus, a collection of five stories and the title novella, won a National Book Award. Having leaped from promising to prizewinning in a single bound, Roth could have set about repeating the formula that had brought him such instant recognition. But one of his more intriguing aspects has been his refusal to tailor his work to anyone else's expectations. Within a decade of the delicate Jamesian fiction in Goodbye, Columbus, Roth wrote Portnoy's Complaint, a barbaric yawp of masturbatory misadventures and comic rage...