But even as spectacle, Thursday night's effort failed.
After seeing the entertaining spectacle Friday night – including the stunning torch-lighting – William Hill has adjusted those odds to indicate it is much more likely.
Sorrow as Spectacle Monday, 7 30 p.m. Use your sorrows to entertain a crowd of hipsters at a "Sob StorySlam" hosted by a modish storytelling collective called the Moth.
There was plenty to watch, with three role debuts and many cast changes, when American Ballet Theater presented this late-19th-century spectacle on Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera House.
A story that breaks on Monday, metamorphoses on Wednesday and becomes a media spectacle by Saturday has the leverage of being assessed via the steady info dump that unfolds in the days after something becomes a front-page item.
"There is a spectacle every day," said Shota Utiashvili, of the Georgian Interior Ministry.
And in an arena that had been at its most raucous as West Ham United mauled Cardiff City in a one-sided spectacle the day before, Haye promised a 35,000-strong boxing crowd he would deliver something similar – "a nice, slow, concussive beating" – should they stump up the cash to watch the fight.
Shea, a Lake Placid resident and champion World Cup racer in a sport known as skeleton, has gone from alternately training and bartending to being anointed as something of a star for the 2000 Winter Goodwill Games, Ted Turner's made-for-television, five-day spectacle that ends Sunday.
Before his announcement on Saturday, Mr. Jones again turned the lawn at Dove into a spectacle on Friday, featuring dozens of photographers and newly arrived supporters, including a former Marine in full camouflage holding an American flag and demanding an apology from Muslims for the Marine barracks bombing in 1983 that killed 241 service members in Beirut.
