One particular case, that of the runaway local "spectacles king," Hu Fulin, that occurred on September 20 , 2011 drew national attention to the financial crisis in Wenzhou.
But if somebody's going to spend 10 or 20 hours in my ears, turning me into a local jogging spectacle, I'd better enjoy the experience.
And all these states of vision were personal and local, the spectacles of his own story.
Tailed by camera crews, Mr. Obama created something of a spectacle on local television, in newspapers and even among the government ministers who jockeyed to join in the attention.
And like Mr. Waddell, there were hordes of onlookers along the Hudson's shores, tipped off to this bridge-on-a-barge spectacle by local newspapers and word of mouth.
"It isn't something you're ever going to change, so you may as well have another drink and enjoy the spectacle," a local rug dealer named Bob Rue told me.
Critics say they are little more than media spectacles, but local Chinese have seen them as unwarranted attacks.
— and decided not to return, enlisting some local company to mount spectacles in a dockworker's bar or a bowling alley's lounge.
The teams waited their turn; 14 alarmingly fit young men from the local fire brigade, whose spectacles and general air of thoughtfulness gave them the semblance of intellectual revolutionaries, went through their rituals.
