Word: spectacularness
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...framed by a spectacular slide in Enron's stock price from over $80 in January to $30 in October to less than $4 at Wednesday?s opening bell - and punctuated only hours later with the one-two punch that looks to have finished Enron off. That would be the downgrade Wednesday morning of Enron?s corporate debt to "junk" status - a bit of paperwork that instantly adds something like $10 billion in debt to Enron?s towering stack of bills - and the abrupt termination by Dynegy of the planned rescue...
...charm of the first Star Wars movies was the murkiness of these new worlds and the inability of the camera to do justice to them—there was so much that seemed just outside the frame. These movies were not spectacular, but palpable. The cantina scene in the original Star Wars is beloved not for its marvelous vistas, but for its seediness and its character and its suggestion of colliding worlds and species. The bicycles-across-the-moon scene in E.T. has a magical simplicity. Now filmmakers have the power to cram anything they want into the frame. Imagine...
...spirit" industry) are the increasingly popular "All-Star" competitive squads, which are run out of private gyms, often as part of gymnastic clubs. All-Stars are the flashy fringe of the cheering world; because they are privately run and unencumbered by school affiliation, the squads blur the boundaries between spectacular gymnastics, outrageous stunts, cheer and dance. They have helped make competitive cheer the fastest-growing women's sport in the country. The squads exist to practice, perform and compete, and have popularized an in-your-face style of cheering and seductive dance movements that have alarmed some adults...
...flight this fall, is powered by twin engines that burn isopropyl alcohol and liquid oxygen to generate 400 lbs. of thrust. Greason's engines should be able to carry passengers 65 miles above the earth--too low to go into orbit but high enough to give space tourists a spectacular view of the planet. Greason estimates that planes powered by his engines could someday cost as little as $900 per flight to operate. The planes would cost as much as a Lear jet ($10 million), but Greason figures that's a bargain considering that Lear jets can't fly high...
...want to have a lot of other characters. I am trying to make this a spectacular dramatic work, not to say that my writing will be spectacular, but I want it to be close to a popular eighteenth century spectacle with a huge cast and lots of effects. I want it to approach that style—it will be an intense counterpoint to the morbidity of the subject matter...