Word: spectacularness
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...decided against the fuel and instead careered up and down single-lane routes through the spectacular mountain scenery of the Chouf, the Druze homeland. Things were calm through the various towns of the area, with open stores and people on the streets. We saw a number of cars and minivans coming north, bedecked with white clothes and full of families with grim faces...
...after his big-time bonk, Landis, who suffers from a degenerative hip condition that will require replacement surgery, staged the most spectacular comeback in Tour de France history. He blazed over three steep, lung-burning mountain passes, shredding the field to win the day's 125-mile race by nearly six minutes and pull into third place in the overall standings, just 30 seconds behind ex-teammate and leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," says Ventura. Saturday, as expected, Landis sprinted past Pereiro and Carlos Sastre, also from Spain...
...hands for feet, as one scout described him. Like all great athletes, his field vision is uncanny, and he's always a beat ahead of everyone else. More Magic Johnson than Michael Jordan, Zizou controlled games, feeding impossibly angled passes to appreciative teammates and scoring timely, if not spectacular, goals. Just remember that cheeky, chipped penalty kick that put France up 1-0 in Berlin last week...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...
Ironically, the record might be better with a bit more Don Byron himself. The virtuoso clarinetist only lends his talents to three tracks, and he makes each one of them spectacular. He has the intonation and mechanical sensibility of Charlie Parker—and apparently, no composition can obscure...