Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Others might not have any parents to get in touch with at all. And even among those of us whose family life resembles a 1950s sitcom fantasy-world, parents' attitudes toward visiting college will vary. Those juniors who are first-born or only children might still inspire their parents' awe by showing them Lowell House. My parents, by contrast, are tuition junkies well on their way to burnout. As of next year, they'll be burdened with three children in three different colleges and one in law school, simultaneously. For them, the college thing is beginning...
...felt vile for doing it," she says. "I felt like all eyes were on me because I was polluting this awe-inspiring place, desecrating the Yard...
Stojko's long program last week seemed more labored than usual. Skating to the sound track from the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, he seemed sapped and uninspired. The sport's most explosive jumper, he failed to awe the audience as he so often does. Although a master of the four-revolution jump (he was the first skater to land a quad-triple combination in competition), he couldn't muster the fortitude to show one off in Nagano. Moreover, he was sloppy in landing a triple loop, normally an easy move for him. Stojko had hoped to break...
Walt ("Clyde") Frazier was a winter light. When he was running the New York Knicks' offense, he dazzled even the opposition into awe. Clyde was an impressionist at his game, like the French Impressionists--Renoir and the boys. They even created light. How did they manage to illuminate those hats...
Around Washington, those in awe of the President's resilience say that if Bill Clinton were the Titanic, the iceberg would have gone down. On Thursday night, he lived out that metaphor when he was host to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at a formal dinner in the East Room. Like a brightly lit ocean liner on a dark sea, the White House floated above the scandal for five hours, as 240 guests clinked glasses and basked in the glow of being rich, of being powerful, of being there...