At the same time, "Joseph Anton" is a large-scale spectacle of political and cultural conflicts during an era in which, Rushdie writes, "incompatible realities frequently collided with one another".
While the tiny group could have gone unnoticed on its own, their presence brought a much larger spectacle -- hundreds of people unified against the Westboro Baptist Church's message of hate.
So what do you do when the host country already puts on one of the world's flashiest and largest spectacles during Carnival season each year?
"The carbon is the one that is producing the large spectacle," Dr. Alberto Saal, associate professor of planetary sciences at Brown University and co-author of the new study, said in a statement. .
Both sides took every measure to exert complete control over their messaging, yet the hiccups in the orchestration of any large spectacle were myriad and manifest in Tampa, Fla . and Charlotte N.C.
Following an exciting start to the year at CES, we at TechCrunch are busy gearing up for our largest east coast spectacle of the year, Disrupt NYC.
www.newvictory.org NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL: CLOUD GATE THEATER OF TAIWAN -- Lin Hwai-min, the company's choreographer and director, specializes in large-scale evocative spectacle of a sort seldom seen in today's modern dance.
Blake often draws Urizen's eyes in this way to signify the blindness of his rational and materialist 'Single vision.' See for example plates 1, 9 and 22 of The Book of Urizen and plate 11 of For Children: The Gates of Paradise where Urizenic 'Aged Ignorance,' wearing large spectacles, blindly clips the wings of a child thus preventing its imaginative flight in the morning sunrise.
Like his later attempt in this kind, A Tale of Two Cities, it was set in the late 18th century and presented with great vigour and understanding (and some ambivalence of attitude) the spectacle of large-scale mob violence.
No, the indispensable thing is shamelessness: the spectacle of the largest possible talents daring to commandeer the attention of the largest possible public in the largest possible way.
