Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class, Koerner gave a spectacular lecture about how he'd write about an altar-piece," Sommers recalls. "Instead of just, say, writing about an altarpiece, you could write about a detail in an altarpiece and then you could go from a part to a whole...
Michael Stone, as her jealous younger lover Garry, is a stand-out in a solid cast. Born a century too late for the stellar vaudeville career he deserves, Stone employs his expressive face and spectacular physical comedy skills as the libidinous real estate agent of "Nothing On." He makes two fantastic falls down staircases that would have taken Chevy Chase a wagonload of painkillers to endure...
That's the main line. A whole lot of other interesting stuff feeds smoothly into it: the fight against cancer by Jack's shrewd old mentor (James Earl Jones); an FBI secretary seduced by the oiliest drug runner; the field operatives led by Willem Dafoe who do spectacular damage to the cartel's operations; amusing glimpses of the life-style of its rich and infamous boss. What's truly appealing about the film is that it plays fair with all this material and the audience. Unlike the typical action movie, which is always trampling over narrative logic in order...
...intricate gambit can attract enough wavering Democrats to salvage part of the President's initial vision, Mitchell will not only have delivered the biggest victory of Clinton's term so far; he will also have proved to the baseball-team owners that he knows how to execute a spectacular save...
Texas Ranger left-hander Kenny Rogers retired 27 straight batters to pitch the 12th perfect game in baseball history. With the help of a spectacular diving catch by outfielder Rusty Greer in the ninth inning, Rogers' 98 pitches and eight strikeouts were enough to put his name in the history books alongside such baseball greats as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax and Catfish Hunter...