Word: spectular
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...that level, Purple Rain works. The stage struts, the soundtrack--in itself worth the price of admission--and the high-camp, high-kitsch style create a spectular vehicle for Prince. The trappings and antics make for an entertaining change from smoother, more packaged summer fare. What one thinks of Prince, of course, is a debatable question of taste. The teenyboppers on my left, breathing heavily one minute, running for popcorn the next, "really, really loved him." The friend on my right looked pensive. "You know," he mused, "if Oscar Wilde were alive today, I think he'd be Prince...
...journalistic writing, however, has been spectular. In the Lady Bird chronicle, by co-editor Daniel Yergin and Mopsey Strange Kennedy, one sees both the smooth professional flow of events as the First Lady's entourage prepares for her visit and the rough frustration of Yale students bickering about how to show the university and the woman that they don't like what she stands...
Brown carried its domination into the third period, but on a slightly less spectular scale. A short shot by Dick Brown caught the left side of the Crimson nets at 3:52, and later, at 17:11, when Coach Chase had five forwards on the ice, Git Priestley broke through alone on goalie Chase...
...three innings in succession after this, Booth turned back the visitors in one, two, three order. He had complete control of the situation and a spectular one-handed catch by Ullman helped keep his record spotless...
...arrangements and accomodations for books, also, it departs from the old type of libraries. The former structure resembled a church with lofty columns and arches, the alcoves and cases for books perched on gatteries or balconies. This system while effective for spectular purposes, was a very bad one for a library where books were to be well cared for. Those in the upper part of the room were inaccessible on account of the number of stairs to be climbed and at the same time were injured by the great heat. The scheme of the new library is radically different...
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