Word: astonishment
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What happens is just what the husband expected. Young Kimura becomes interested in the wife and she in him. This in turn makes Papa jealous to the point where he performs sexual feats that astonish even his wife. The daughter, of course, catches on soon enough, and by now her jealousy of her mother has made them enemies. When the mother begins to rendezvous with her daughter's young man, the four are catastrophically enmeshed in feelings of lust, outrage and jealousy that swiftly reach a point of no return...
...beholder ever supposed to know just what Dubuffet's images were supposed to be. "I am pleased," he said, "to see life in trouble, going insane-hesitating between certain forms that we recognize as belonging to our familiar surroundings and others that we do not, and whose voices astonish...
Nixon: We do not claim to astonish the Russian people. We hope to show our diversity and our right to choose. We do not want to have decisions made at the top by one government official that all houses should be built the same...
...South Africa, the grandson of the Scottish founder of the country's educational system and son of Premier Jan Smuts's Portuguese-German trade commissioner. Ever since he left Cape Town to drive with his bride to Cairo, Spilhaus has been doing and saying things that astonish his less impulsive colleagues...
...Villa Orsini at Bomarzo is a whole sculpture garden of beasts and ogres carved from volcanic rock (see color pages) on the site. Rarely has sentiment taken a more bizarre turn. Created in the 1560s by Duke Pierfrancesco ("Vicino") Orsini, the sculpture garden was meant not only to astonish and delight, but to serve as a memorial to Orsini's deceased wife...