Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again and again around her middle finger...
...that comes at a time when theatrical dance is in the doldrums. There hasn't been anything like it in years--10 years, to be exact, for it was in 1989 that Jerome Robbins put his ballet career on hold to direct Jerome Robbins' Broadway, a song-and-dance spectacular that theater buffs still recall with awe. The comparison is inescapable: Fosse was the only other Broadway choreographer with anything like Robbins' stylistic individuality and clarity of purpose, and he has had no successors...
...look more closely at the baby's genetic prospects, doctors must probe the long stretches of DNA along the chromosomes constituting its genes. Thanks to the spectacular success of molecular biologists in identifying specific disease genes, burgeoning U.S. genetic centers now offer DNA tests for 30 or 40 of the more commonly inherited disorders, including cystic fibrosis, susceptibility to some types of breast cancer, fragile X syndrome (after Down, the most common cause of mental retardation), Huntington's disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and various types of degeneration of the brainstem, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. If you include testable variants...
...spectacular things with cells in a laboratory dish," explains Anderson. "You can easily get the genes in, change the cell's properties and do other things that ought to enable you to treat disease successfully." That is precisely what Anderson and his colleagues did eight years ago in the first approved use of gene therapy, when they removed blood cells from a young patient, genetically altered them with a viral vector and infused them back into her bloodstream...
Victoria's recurrent gag of hitting a spectacular glass-shattering high note sums this production up: an idea not inherently funny and repeated too often to the point of tiresomeness...