From "Oedipus Rex" to The National Enquirer, watching the rich and mighty get theirs has been a perennially popular spectator sport, providing the satisfactions of both plain old Schadenfreude and keyhole glimpses of upper-crust opulence.
From "Oedipus Rex" to The National Enquirer, watching the rich and mighty get theirs has been a perennially popular spectator sport, providing the satisfactions of plain old schadenfreude and keyhole glimpses of upper-crust opulence.
The book ends with Manders imprisoned and Raffles apparently dead, something that left The Spectator reviewer "expressing [their] satisfaction that this audaciously entertaining volume is not issued in a cheap form.
A simulator by any other name, each version of Gotham can be delved into as a spectator, holding a sense of satisfaction and entertainment that most games struggle to achieve at all.
He saw, first hand, the power of being a smart spectator and a collector, and the satisfaction of making yourself and your tastes well known.
The split-second call of whether to stand or sit can designate you a groupie or a grinch, turning each spectator into a customer taking a satisfaction survey, a Roman emperor delivering the gladiator a thumbs-up or thumbs-down.
The Giants win the pennant!" DeLillo captures that scene, and so much more along the way — nobody writes crowd scenes like he does, and among other things "Underworld" understands the joys of fandom, the profound satisfactions of being a spectator.
It is moments like those when opera, in addition to the aesthetic joys and emotional satisfactions, can seem like a spectator sport or a circus high-wire act.
As it was, the linesman's sharp eyes, and the few minutes of mayhem that followed at both ends, ensured both sets of spectators left the ground with reasons for satisfaction.
