Word: spectacularly
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REIT investors have enjoyed a spectacular 35% gain in the past 12 months. That's why Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, recently cut his exposure, noting that the stocks trade for 27% more than the underlying property they own. But that premium may be justified, given that REITs make it easy to buy and sell commercial real estate for any size portfolio. Besides, property values are rising from the ashes of the '80s bust, and rents are going up too. Biggs believes REITs will return 12% over the next 12 months. Steve Hash, an analyst at Lehman...
Many of the works less explicitly linked to narrative, like Jason Rhoades' dense installation, create spectacular mental images of their creators. These implied personas may or may not be contiguous with the artists themselves, just as we might recognize the space between the author and narrator of a novel or poem. Rhoades' Uno Momento, for example, calls to mind a funky urban hipster who empties out his over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests...
This week the public will get its first look at the most spectacular fruit yet of the area's renaissance: the unveiling of the Walt Disney Co.'s $34 million restoration of the New Amsterdam theater. Originally built in 1903 and famously taken over by Florenz Ziegfeld 10 years later, it is, after its refurbishment, one of the grandest and most mind-bendingly ornate theaters in America, an eclectic melange of Art Nouveau and other turn-of-the-century ornamentation and a triumph of the restorer's art. Disney is hoping the New Amsterdam will be an economic triumph...
...making up his own dialogue and deliberately burning a cameraman's face with a lighted cigarette while shooting Moreau (Kilmer says it was an accident). Some directors praise the actor's craft and attitude. "Val gives you nuance piled on nuance," says Heat director Michael Mann. "I had a spectacular time working with him." But others hear the word Kilmer and reach for their revolver. "He isn't just a high-strung, difficult actor," says Joel Schumacher, who hired Kilmer for Batman Forever and apparently rued the day from Day 1. "He's a deeply troubled man in need...
...spend even a few moments with dancer/choreographer Michael Flatley in his off hours--say, the morning after a three-encore performance of his touring Irish-dance spectacular Lord of the Dance--is to know you are in the presence of someone for whom the gift of a Tony Robbins seminar would be as superfluous as a swimming lesson for Mark Spitz. Flatley knows well how to assert himself. When he isn't dancing, he is swaggering; when he isn't in stage sequins, he is wearing leather, diamonds and enough cologne to deodorize a landfill in July...