Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fury, dark plots, and love destroyed by desperate ambition. The night was filled with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came...
...successful were these illusions and escapes that many of Houdini's vast audience actually believed he could communicate with spirits, that he had supernatural powers. But as the movies began to edge vaudeville into the wings, the master escapist earned most of his headlines by proving that anyone who claimed such magic was a fake. While he tilted with the table rappers and spook producers, he continued to produce new stunts for the stage. He was still at it in the fall of 1926, when he let a college boxer test his vaunted toughness by punching...
...same bolt as the Broadway play, is an honest, occasionally touching effort to dramatize what Dylan Thomas called the puny measure of happiness that "time allows . . . Before the children green and golden/ Follow him out of grace." The movie also follows through to treat the children's vast measure of unhappiness after 16-year-old Arthur Bartley and his 15-year-old girl friend Janet fall from grace and into the evil clutches of an abortionist. The fault here seems to lie not so much with the youngsters' incautious lovemaking, or even with the devil in their flesh...
There is still much digging to be done. But already there stands glowing against the Mediterranean blue a vast forest of marble splendor, slightly decadent in detail by Hellenic standards, and yet overpowering in total effect. The ruins, says Bernard Berenson, "are evocative and romantic to a degree that it would be hard to exaggerate. One wants to look and dream, and dream and look. Leptis is, all considered, one of the most impressive fields of ruins on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...balloon-borne instruments detected an even hotter burst of radiation, about 10,000 times more intense than normal cosmic rays. Both the May and July radiation bursts, say the Minnesota scientists, came from the same disturbed region on the sun, which has been exploding for many months like a vast ammunition dump. As the sun rotates, flare after flare has sprayed streams of particles into space, sweeping the solar system like streams of water from a revolving lawn sprinkler...