Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, is an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, and it ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...abortive drive was typical of the Crimson's perfor- mance most of the afternoon. Leo and Grant were spectacular. Leo, who had not been expected to play because of a hamstring pull, gained 84 yards on 18 carries. Grant ran 22 times for 76 yards. Yet only once--on their touchdown drive in the third quarter--did the Crimson penetrate Princeton's 30-yard line...
...Ikeya-Seki comet may have seemed a dud to casual observers who were screened from its spectacular passage by assorted weather conditions. It was by no means a disappointment to astronomers. Never before has a comet undergone such detailed scientific scrutiny-from observatories around the world, from specially outfitted jet planes, from NASA's sounding rockets...
Even more spectacular than the gain in prices was the week's 43,138,100-share volume, the third highest in New York Stock Exchange history-topped only by the volume of the previous week and of the fateful week of Nov. 2, 1929. For all that, the market was diffident and nervous, tugged at from hour to hour by investors changing their stockholdings for tax reasons, by speculators covering short sales of stock and by customers who kept moving into and out of the low-priced glamour stocks...