Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time, Catherine's story is told by a director and an actress with whom she bears much in common. Both Holland and star Jennifer Jason Leigh have contributed years of solid, sometimes spectacular work to the male-dominated film industry, but neither has received the critical or popular recognition they deserve. In their sensitive hands, Washington Square-as-film comes closer to what James originally wrote: an elegy to a woman whom few people notice and no one loves...
...scene is repeated in similar small, regularly held fellowship groups around the U.S. (about 20,000 at last count) and has been displayed in spectacular proportions in stadiums across the country, last year congregating an average of 50,000 men at each of 22 sites for a total of 1.1 million souls. Male souls always, for the Promise Keepers are intent on carving God's masculine face back onto the spiritual tableau where they believe the model of divine fatherhood has eroded. The seven-year-old organization boasts annual revenues of $87 million, a two-story brick headquarters in Denver...
...transformed the hapless Buffaloes of the University of Colorado. First he had to struggle through some miserable losing seasons (including a 1-10 record in 1984) and criticism that he favored Christian players over less devout teammates. Gradually, though, McCartney put together a winning streak, leading to a spectacular 1989 season that earned him five national Coach of the Year honors and culminated in beating Notre Dame at the Orange Bowl in 1991. In that year he signed a dream 15-year contract with Colorado, worth $400,000 in a good year, plus bonuses...
...seed. In the top of the first, we scored three runs with no outs when the son of the zealous dad hit a bases-clearing triple. We never scored another run after that. But lo and behold, our pitchers held the other team in check, thanks to some spectacular plays in the field. With two outs in the sixth, and last, inning, they had runners on first and second, while we had two outs and a 3-1 lead...
...John Paul II will travel to Brazil to start a four-day tour designed to return many of the nation's lapsed Catholics back to the fold. The Pope will try to address a 20-year decline in the nation's Catholic population with his usual blend of the spectacular (masses held in soccer stadiums) and the divine (speeches attacking abortion, extolling the virtues of the family and urging people to be more Catholic...