Word: spectacularness
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Feaster celebrated the milestone by playingwhat may be the best game of her career. She madeher presence left a both ends of the floor andturned in several spectacular plays en route toher second-highest, and Harvard's second-highest,single-game point total ever...
Julie Johnson is at its best when characters are allowed to interact and deal with the daily challenges of mundane life. Bishop, who displayed spectacular passion and fervor earlier this term as Lady Macbeth, turns her emotional intensity inwards as a quietly powerful individual. Julie's frustration with herself and her surroundings is brilliantly portrayed by Bishop; she slowly builds up her confidence while retaining her sensitivity and empathy...
...people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana's life, people saw the limits of their own aspirations...
...Knopf) Alex Shoumatoff, a New Yorker contributor, spent 25 years researching and writing this book about the U.S. Southwest. The result is a sometimes bewildering but continually fascinating profusion of stories and themes. Shoumatoff writes knowingly and affectionately about indigenous Indians and those who came later. The scenery is spectacular, and there is nothing dry or dusty in this desert...
...FAVORITE MARTIAN All eyes were on Mars this summer as NASA's Pathfinder lander and its Sojourner rover beamed home spectacular pictures of the Red Planet and introduced Earthlings to rocks with names like Casper and Scooby Doo. Sniffing out the chemistry of both the rocks and the soil, the rover helped confirm scientists' suspicion that Mars was once a warm, wet place, possibly able to support life. After four months of work, the lander and rover succumbed to Mars' punishing cold. Now and then, however, when the sun is high in the Martian sky, the rover may stir, toddling...