Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the ice was black and people could trace their names -- or grapevines or Maltese crosses -- on a winter evening. Those innocent exercises gradually evolved into amateur competitions in which painfully exacting school figures counted for much of a skater's score, the rest being determined by the more spectacular free skating...
Marsh, of course, was referring to freshman forward Steve Martins, whose five-point weekend was the highlight of the Crimson's spectacular home stand against St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
...stock market put on a spectacular show of defiance in 1991. Wall Street's bulls ignored the crushing weight of debt on the economy and the signs of a protracted recession. Every major stock-market index pushed into record-high territory. The Dow Jones average leaped 535 points to an all-time peak of 3168.83, a gain of more than 20% -- and for good measure, rose nearly 33 points during the first two days of 1992. The S&P 500 gained even more than the Dow during 1991, rising 26%, and NASDAQ, the most popular measure for small stocks, surged...
Ibsen might not have recognized his valedictory in Robert Wilson's visually spectacular and verbally stripped-down version. But this directorial coup of the year reinforced Wilson's nonpareil standing as a sculptor of stage space...
Ibsen might not have recognized his valedictory in Robert Wilson's visually spectacular and verbally stripped-down version. But this directorial coup of the year reinforced Wilson's nonpareil standing as a sculptor of stage space...