Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bacigalupo, starting over last year's All-Ivy Honorable Mention Jim Ardrey, has been spectacular between the twines thus far. The freshman netminder was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after snagging the Mickey McFadden Unsung Hero Award at last weekend's Loyola tournament. Bacigalupo recorded 16 saves against Penn State and 24 stops during a spectacular performance in the final game...
...student at the UCLA film school, and The Doors latches onto this fear in the first scene -- when five-year-old Jim sees a car wreck -- and rides the snake right to the end. In between come dozens of set pieces in which Morrison makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy mistress (Kathleen Quinlan, who gets it right), locking his wife-to-be (Meg Ryan, who has no character to play) in a closet and setting it on fire. Perhaps...
...westernmost assault, the French demonstrated that they were expert at desert combat as well. With its Foreign Legion components, France's 7,600-man 6th Light Armored Division conducted one of the most spectacular feats of the war, racing across 105 miles of Iraqi territory to seal off enemy avenues of retreat. The flanking movement blitzed to capture an airfield at the fortified town of As Salman. French Defense Minister Pierre Joxe boasted that impressed U.S. officers likened the troops to a "high-speed train...
...notes former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "But there were other players on that stage." The aging tiger Georges Clemenceau, France's Prime Minister, still prowled the premises, as did Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George, another heavyweight. "No nation in any historical period has had the spectacular success of the U.S. these past two years," adds Kissinger, who was a professor of history before he became a shaper of policy and then a wealthy consultant on international relations...
Those bored with the mountains and wildlife of the Grand Tetons might consider making the short drive south to Jackson, Wyoming. A booming ski town in winter, in the warmer months this town shows its wild West roots with a nightly spectacular, though somewhat hokey, shoot-out. In Jackson, those seeking to look the wild West part can shop for cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. After that, they can head on over to a saloon where saddles serve as bar stools and action centers on a mechanical bucking bronco...