Word: spectacularness
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...star of the show, and of the nation's past century, is the automobile industry. "Italy is known as the place where the most beautiful cars are made," says curator Patrizia Pietrogrande. "Ferrari and Alfa Romeo are representative of Italian elegance and style." Fittingly, then, a spectacular array of cars greets visitors as they arrive at the neoclassical Palazzo. Contemporary models include the Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher when he clinched the company's fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship...
...brazen heist, which the police called the "most spectacular" in Swiss history, took place at 4:30 on the afternoon of February 10, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa, which houses one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, estimated at $160 million. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody...
...against No. 16 Quinnipiac at Bright Hockey center, his advice proved crucial in a 4-1 win for the Crimson men.In a game that easily could have devolved into an extended fistfight, Harvard’s players matched the Bobcats’ aggression, but avoided needless penalties in a spectacular display of high-scoring offense and stifling defense.“The gloves came up high a few times but we talked about it last night after the game when we took a lot of penalties that we have to be more disciplined, and tonight our guys did a good...
...disparity between votes polled and seats won, a feature of Britain's single-member-district electoral system, drew immediate cries of protest from Alliance officials. "I feel a sense of outrage," said Liberal Leader David Steel, 45. Complained Shirley Williams: "Under a different system, it would have been a spectacular performance...
...intended to strike a blow for law and order. On Monday more than 1,000 French riot cops raided apartments in several suburban housing projects north of Paris, arresting 33 of the 37 suspected leaders of ultra-violent rioting in the region last November. But along with cheers, the spectacular dawn raid reaped plenty of scorn. Former Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal called it "spectacle politics;" it was a mix "of justice and stage craft" in the opinion of centrist leader Francois Bayrou. Normal enough, of course, for the opposition to carp at government action. But this time there...