At the time of the album's release, however, Cohen was much less generous in his public response to the album, calling Spector's production "a 'catastrophe.'"

Though Kernan concedes that his heart remains devoted to the passing "order in which I was trained," he refuses to call its obsolescence a catastrophe.

In 1990 the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed the permit, calling the project an "environmental catastrophe."

Darryl F. Zanuck called it "a catastrophe, for which I blame myself.

The spill, in the heart of the tourist season, was called "a catastrophe" by Gov. Pedro Rosello.

Deschamps himself called the show a "catastrophe" and would later recall that "they ended up writing off my career."

The primary effects of the Vatican quake could hardly, to repeat myself, be called a catastrophe.

This switch from growth to shrinking is called a catastrophe.

Gov. Pedro Rosello, inspecting the area, called the spill "a catastrophe that will have significant impact on tourism."