Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...green glob dances. In one of the more fantastic scenes in recent Disney films, the filmmakers decide to let loose. The story screeches to a halt, the characters are silenced, and flubber performs the mambo. Pulsating to Danny Elfman's spectacular score, the dozens of energetic lumps of goo twist and turn around the room. They organize themselves in pairs, in kick lines, in symmetric circles. It's hilarious and wondrous to behold. The dazzling scene is a classic one--it almost makes the whole movie worthwhile...
...other hand, learning's for suckers, and comedy's for kings. 1941 billed itself in 1979 as "A Comedy Spectacular," and it is: big, garrulous, messy, and often (but alas, not always) hilarious. A cast-of-thousands stacked with comedy veterans, from Aykroyd to Belushi to Candy to Slim Pickens to Tim Matheson to . . . to everybody, even Patti LuPone and an uncredited Penny Marshall. Not for the high-falutin, but that scene with the door . . . whooeee...
...seems success has a way of spoiling us all, and the fall season was spectacular for Harvard athletics. The women's basketball team is the preseason favorite to repeat as Ivy League champions, and after the football and soccer heroics of the season past, the men's basketball team is fighting to carry forward the momentum this year's Crimson athletic program is generating...
Feaster was the bright spot for Harvard. The senior had a spectacular game and finished with a game-high 28 points, 13 rebounds and three steals in a losing cause...
...says he will not stray from the formula that turned $15,000 into $12 billion. "I would like to be viewed as this investor from the middle of the desert, who comes and adds value to companies," he says. "I get a kick out of finding industries that have spectacular potential. I look for companies that have solid brand names and sound management but are dirt cheap." As the prince can tell you, those bargains can really...