"This is such a colossal event, with such economic and social impact, that perhaps it would be appropriate to look at a commission of unimpeachable credentials, more unimpeachable for their integrity than their technical expertise," he said.
This colossal event, staged in the specially built Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, was full of new-gothic, neo-Renaissance, neo-everything nightmares of bad design and ponderous art.
They have evolved a defensive, careful formal language of their own, which other New Yorkers only occasionally overhear... Alan Leidner, who is the head of geographic-information systems for the city, and the father of the Map, spoke about what the Map could do... Tfhe Map has not yet got a lot of P.R., partly because it is a colossal event only in the geographic-information-systems world.
They have evolved a defensive, careful formal language of their own, which other New Yorkers only occasionally overhear... Alan Leidner, who is the head of geographic-information systems for the city, and the father of the Map, spoke about what the Map could do... Tfhe Map has not yet got a lot of P.R., partly because it is a colossal event only in the geographic-information-systems world..
We were a few of the several hundred who had gathered for the rescheduled colossal event.
And yet, while all this has been going on, an event has gone completely unnoticed, a huge, colossal event, one which, in the long run, can redraft the map of the planet, and one which this shadow theater nonetheless conceals from view.
As the Commonwealth Games in Delhi unfold, it is worth asking whether the aggravation and scrutiny that come with staging such colossal events is worth the time, money and effort.
They also play an essential role putting together colossal events like the Olympic Games.
But, overall, the initial market reaction to a colossal political event is surely: it could have been worse.
The Expédition d'Égypte has often been remembered as the starting point for Egyptology or for foreshadowing Napoleon's later campaigns, but the current disaster in Iraq may finally reframe it as the colossal premonitory event it was.
That's right people, Super Bowl weekend is finally days away and this year Miami is lucky enough to host the colossal sport event.
