Pilgrim acknowledges in an offhand way that the US does shady stuff it shouldn't, but in the broader context of a plausible novel about a terrorist spectacular, the message that the NSA should have carte blanche to intercept and imprison is beamed out loud and clear.
But as Dr. Susan Davis summed up in her book-length study of SeaWorld ("Spectacular Nature"), its message to the public is falsely soothing: "Don't worry; there are problems with the environment, but scientists and corporations are working together to solve them".
Intermixed in the spectacular and candid messages of support, I've also received dozens of apologies from friends, classmates, and acquaintances who feel guilty for not being in touch or not realizing what I have been going through.
You could have spectacular e-mail messages!
Although the White Lotus faith was practiced by boatmen on the Grand Canal with no attempts to foment uprising, its millenarian message spurred spectacular rebellions; the most-notable was the White Lotus Rebellion at the close of the 18th century.
He was open to readers: he answered emails (or some of them, because the volume of incoming messages was spectacular) and he went to Discworld conventions (almost all of them).
With the way clear, Osborne travelled to Scotland to deliver his blunt message against a spectacular backdrop of a sunny Edinburgh Castle from the city's Point Hotel.
I've always understood its importance – cut grass, thyme lawns, lavender-edged pathways – but a visit to one particular garden drove this message home in spectacular style.
More spectacular if less fraught with message is the massive "Two Sides to Daylight," a remarkable seven-foot-tall structure built on a curving steel armature, fleshed out on one side by densely overlapping cut-tire leaves and on the other by small slices of rubber hose that suggest blossoms.
But if we needed reminding that nothing in space is routine then this explosion has brought that message home in spectacular fashion.
