A spectacular best-seller, the book was adapted into a big-budget film, and then a television series.
Then, last April, they upset the defending champion Oilers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, overcoming a three-games-to-one deficit in a spectacular best-of-seven series.
But, thanks to the concerts, spectaculars best described by critic Jon Landau as an apotheosis of American musical comedy, he remained a big money earner.
While chess is embedded in the culture of some eastern European countries, it still remains slightly peripheral in most of the rest of the world and its popularity among the general public therefore tends to be dependent on big spectaculars: best of all a world championship match, preferably with a local hero.
Like its return and cover units, Chicago's kicking game is stellar at worst and spectacular at best.
With a gain of 13.1percentt for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the first three months of 2019 were spectacular — the best first quarter in more than 20 years.
Much of the research so far has been conducted at the Niaux cave, where the paintings in the mile-long chamber known as the Salon Noir are among the most spectacular and best preserved of the genre.
Updated at 5.01pm BST 12.46pm BST After 24 years of trying, 24 years of heartache, and four spectacular meltdowns best viewed through the fingers, is it finally going to happen for Lefty?
But while Trollope's cosy Barsetshire setting might struggle to compete with the Night Manager's cosmopolitan glamour of lakeside castles and mountain-top luxury hotels, it will certainly give a starring role to one of the most spectacular and best preserved Victorian mansions in the country.
Gloucestershire 's acting captain Craig Spearman led his side to a 78-run First Division victory over Warwickshire with a spectacular career-best 153 at Archdeacon Meadow yesterday.
