Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Sunday's spectacular Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) concert on the Boston Common surprised no one. This free performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the genteel Boston Common was a fitting tribute to BSO conductor Seiji Ozawa, whose 25th year with the orchestra it celebrated...
...After a spectacular devaluation and default, what's a country to do? The answer from Russia's new central banker, Viktor Geraschenko, is to print money, and lots of it. Printing presses are said to have been rolling for days, cranking out billions of nearly worthless rubles. Just how many have been printed is a state secret, but Boris Nemtsov, the 38-year-old (recently retired) deputy prime minister, puts the figure at "between 9 billion and 12 billion rubles" (some $600 million to $800 million). Officially, the central bank only admits to printing "less than 1 billion" rubles...
...goal, Burney and senior Meredith Bagley have been spectacular, and Burney has not allowed a goal in her last 196 minutes...
Consider, for instance, the Detroit Lions. Here, in the home of the automobile, you can be wowed each week by the truly unforgettable performances of possibly the most spectacular player ever to take the field, Barry Sanders...
...late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns, tanks, limp bodies, bloodshed and explosions--all of which, though accurately and emotionally depicted, do not constitute a war movie. Instead, they constitute a war. Private Ryan...