The trend toward the future of the body manifests itself best now in non-Olympic sports -- poorly policed, wondrous spectacles where we're cutting to the chase because the refs are all in on the action.
Solar particles also produce one of nature's wondrous spectacles - the auroras - natural light shows in the Earth's atmosphere.
One of New Jersey's most wondrous natural spectacles is winding down right about now, involving migrating birds like the red knot, which, incredibly, flies from South America to the Arctic Circle, stopping briefly on our state's southern shores to chow down on horseshoe crab eggs.
The "World of Tomorrow", which lasted 18 months in 1939 and 1940, was indeed a wondrous and silly spectacle.
Those are the three books that have been filmed most often and most memorably, the ones that lend themselves best to filmic spectacle - the wondrous subterranean caverns and prehistoric monsters of the first, the aquarium of splendours in the second, the scenic travelogue of the third.
Like millions around the world, I found the spectacle creatively cohesive, wondrous and moving.
