Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Coast and completely obscured the view of crowds gathered for the occasion in Manhattan's Central Park. Astronomers on a plane circling above the weather off Nantucket Island reported only about 20 meteor sightings in an hour. They missed the celestial show of a lifetime. Another spectacular Leonid shower is not expected again until...
...River Kwai for $2,000,000 and scored a ratings blitz, the networks were convinced, if they had had any doubt before. Within days, three studios had been paid $92,500,000 for 118 films. Among them was 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, perhaps the most wildly unbusinesslike spectacular ever produced. Originally budgeted for $2,000,000, it wound up costing $40 million. It was only the $5,000,000 paid for TV rights that finally made the near-disaster into a moneymaker...
...Vespers are colorful and spectacular primarily because of the constant shifts of performing forces: soloists come in and go out, winds alternate with strings, and the chorus parts shift abruptly from one end of the voice ranges to the other. Therefore co-ordination and flexibility among the various performing groups are essential to a good performance. The soloists were all successful in this respect, making the most florid passages sound simple. Penny Colwell and Marian Ruhl sang their soprano duets like a single voice, and bass Walter Moore's competence and ease were overwhelming. In some of the tenor...
...showers. In 1833, the earth's course took it through the middle of the main cluster of Leonids that follow closely behind the parent comet; it encountered a vastly larger number of meteoroids than usual. Just 33 years later, in November 1866, there was another fiery but less spectacular shower; the main cluster orbiting the sun once every 33¼ years was still three months away. In 1899 and 1932, at the time of the November encounter, the main cluster was even farther away. Both times there were only disappointingly modest increases in the Leonid showers-partly because...
This November, a full four orbits after 1833, things should be different. The main swarm of Leonids should be back at the same point where they were intercepted by the earth 133 years ago. Astronomers who have predicted a substantial, if not spectacular shower, are hopeful that the earth will again pass directly through 1866 I's biggest clump of orbiting debris...