The word extravaganza has appeared in 90 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 21 in “A Light Display With Many, but Not All, Glowing Reviews” by Ronda Kaysen:
Timothy and Grace Gay have been decorating their property in Union Vale, a town about an hour and a half north of New York City, since 1995. The display attracted a cultlike following when the family first won the Guinness World Record in 2012. Now, from the day after Thanksgiving through the week after Christmas, around 60,000 tourists — 13 times the town’s population of 4,600 — drive along the dark country roads in search of dazzle.
This year, the Gays strung up 720,420 lights around the pond in front of their home, about 17,000 more bulbs than their 2022 tally.
… I returned three weeks later to see the display in all its glory. At night, the country roads were disorienting. But out of the darkness appeared an extravaganza of flashing, twirling colors reminiscent of a circus or a carnival fun house.
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