No opposition newspapers or TV stations were closed down, opposition political parties remained free to organise and most extraordinarily of all, almost all of the participants in the coup escaped prosecution.
The actors mirrored the originals almost as extraordinarily as the setting.
Tom Goldstein, the publisher of the highly influential SCOTUSblog, has described Kagan as "extraordinarily — almost artistically — careful.
Where Lucy was obedient, prudent and wise, almost always in extraordinarily self-serving ways, Cady was delinquent, impetuous and brave: the problem child incarnate.
Shot on black-and-white film, often without synchronised sound, The Anderson Platoon feels extraordinarily, almost uncannily, similar to its more modern embedded descendents: Restrepo, Hell and Back Again, which debuted at Sundance in January, and the latest example of the type, the Danish film Armadillo.
It offers a wealth of new details and known facts seen from a new angle, but what is most striking about this book is the writer's extraordinarily subtle, almost childishly attentive view of the war.
They are extraordinarily vivid; almost unbearably poignant.
Best of all, the songs are almost uniformly fantastic, and extraordinarily well sequenced.
Ray's photographs in the show document an almost monotonous parade of extraordinarily beautiful, smart handmaids of Surrealism.
"I played with somebody who played extraordinarily good, almost Tigeresque," said Bohn, who pitched in for par at the 18th hole for a round of 72.
