Word: splendid
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...course, even a splendid victory would be disastrous for Israel, because at great expense in wealth and blood, it would gain nothing in the aftermath that it did not have before the current crisis: safety from invasion. And any outcome at all would be disastrous for Western and especially American interests. Nobody can even bear to contemplate an utterly improbable Israeli defeat. But if Arab leaders are humiliatingly defeated, the most likely outcome of a war, the fundamentalists would have their first real chance of coming to power. Arafat's ineffectual strategy and utter recklessness have thus caused a crisis...
...connect-the-squares walk (Piazza Castello to Piazza Vittorio Veneto on the banks of the Po River is a good starting route) that provides some satisfying food for the eyes. The architecture is largely 17th and 18th century Baroque that recalls Paris more than Palermo - many of the most splendid palazzi are the original property of the House of Savoy...
...Sweet Smell" has to be seen as well as heard, and the place to do that right now is at Manhattan's Film Forum, where a splendid new 35mm print is unspooling through March 28. The big screen and clear print lets you see the pockmarks on J.J.'s skin (the harsh lighting that cinematographer James Wong Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size...
Tops on the list of Springfest priorities should be a bigger budget: $20,000 isn’t that much, and it’s certainly not enough to bring a really big-name band to the splendid green space of the MAC Quad (cough). Plus, with the newly expanded Springfest audience, picking a band now requires considering a broader age range. (Lee was quoted in The Crimson saying that because of this wider age range, organizers didn’t favor hip-hop. I wasn’t aware that the appeal of that genre was limited to college...
...undergraduates. He also gets the benefit of working with council dollars and manpower to benefit groups the University has been accused of treating badly—Faculty and workers. That means that the band, the rides or games, and the food must be appealing to a wider audience. The splendid green space on the MAC Quad (cough) is too small to include a much wider range of attractions than it already does. Lee says attractions for younger children will be located in Lowell courtyard and possibly a couple of other locations. As it stands, without the addition of faculty, staff...