Selections of previously published work, along with portions of an unfinished memoir, were collected in The Spectacle of Skill (2015).
The Spectacle of Skill, a new collection of his work, includes the (unfinished) memoir Hughes was writing when he died in 2012 – pages I long for, but will have to eke out, as the back patient does his diazepam.
It's not always a rugby spectacle in terms of skill but in terms of emotion, passion, highs and lows it can't be beaten.
Mingling the traditional and the technological with modern spectacle and time-tested skills at Madison Square Garden, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is marching, dancing, swinging, soaring, pirouetting, plodding, prat-falling and blasting off into its third century of lavish entertainment.
Our "art project" had been created to prove that it really is that easy to make it as a DJ with just a bit of show, spectacle and some technical skills.
It combines Tudor skill for peripatetic spectacles with the divine sense of mission of the Stuarts, the carefully wrought homeliness of the Hanoverians, and the German thoroughness of the Windsors.
If the game in Europe is all about tactics and the pursuit of the result above all else, soccer in Latin America is about style and skill -- creating a spectacle -- a deft shimmy, an eye-popping move, an overreaction to a foul that leaves a player writhing in pain one second and running full out the next.
Over time, influenced by the success of P. T. Barnum, the circus became crassly commercial, an experience of size and spectacle rather than refined beauty or skill.
By playing down musical skill within a larger spectacle, Chicks on Speed took away the main card male rockers often hold: virtuosity.
What you make of this spectacle — which is filmed, not without skill, in slick and lurid widescreen composition — will depend to some extent on how you interpret the movie's title, with its deadpan implication of typicality.
