'Tis the season for live spectacles, and as such, I'm pleased to welcome you to the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards where TechCrunch, Gigaom and VentureBeat join together and award the best technology of 2013.
In APT8 there are many artists whose modest work offers a counterpoint to such spectacle, artists such as Taiwanese painter Chen Ching-Yuan whose small scale, surrealist-flavoured series Unravel (2015) offers visual allegories of protests for democratic reform.
She could do romantic comedy opposite Hugh Grant, as in Nine Months; blockbuster spectacle, such as in The Lost World: Jurassic Park; and quality period pieces like An Ideal Husband and Far From Heaven.
The spectacle appalled such observers as John Quincy Adams, with the former president sorrowing that Texas joined the union tainted by two crimes, slavery and "robbery of Mexico .More than a century of unblushing, institutionalised racism followed, involving everything from segregated schools to guestworker schemes that left Mexicans at the mercy of exploitative bosses.
Such a spectacle, as those who followed Frankel last year on the Flat can testify, can be a thrill in itself.
The RNC resembled what would happen if you filled your racist grandfather with fireworks and threw a match down his throat, and who could compete with such a spectacle as that?
The calming sight of two professional politicians (Clinton and Dole, between them, have more than sixty years of experience in the trade) cannot quite obscure the spectacle of such excitable amateurs as Buchanan and Ross Perot.
"We don't believe it would have gone against audience expectations for a TV spectacle such as this".
Numerous forms of spectacle, such as dramatic and nondramatic pageants, the circus, son et lumière, and gymnastic presentations, are closely allied with theatre and indeed are considered by some classifications to be theatrical.
It would take a small leap for our definition to encompass standup comedy and a spectacle such as the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, for example, but what about a gallery opening or a church service?
