It is punishment, revenge, spectacle -- anything but justice".
As we all know, design by committee might produce good mass spectacle, but anything truly inventive or quirky ends up as an outtake.
But genuine public health interventions to address the real social and lifestyle causes of disease are far less lucrative, and far less of a spectacle, than anything a food crank or a TV producer would ever dream of dipping into.
"It's more of a spectacle than anything else," said John Griffin, a spokesman for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, organizers of the Daytona 500 and other races where the crashes are unintentional but more spectacular.
LES CAYES, Haiti — It is a legal spectacle unlike anything Haiti has seen: the government trying 13 of its own police officers — including high-ranking prison officials and riot squad members — on charges of murder, attempted murder or other crimes stemming from a prison massacre here last year.
For a while, these folk remind you of the crew in "Jaws" — which had come out the summer before "Apocalypse Now" started shooting, and in which John Milius had a hand — and they make a more hopeful spectacle than anything in "Heart of Darkness".
It's this style of corporate film-making, pitched to the global audience and powered by spectacle over anything else, that has given us the hellacious bombast of the Transformers films, interminable summer duds like John Carter and The Lone Ranger, and – though some would disagree with me – the last three Star Wars films, which disappeared into the wormhole of their own technology.
Hart thrilled a completely sold-out crowd with a spectacle unlike anything seen in stand-up (a strict no cellphone policy enforced by a beefed-up security presence kept the audience even more engaged).
The fat or thin robber, who did or did not wear spectacles, was anything from 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet 6 inches tall.
Al-Qaida gave the world a situationist spectacle that dwarfed anything from the conventional workshops of politics and culture.
