Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been looking forward to Opening Day for weeks. Curious friends and I had snuck downstairs after "Ec 10" lectures to watch the construction. Centuries away from the awe-inspiring gothic majesty of Sanders Theatre and the half-finished Annenberg Hall, Loker looked humble, even homey. The semi-hidden booths beckoned me to sit, study and have a cup of coffee...
...knows? Maybe someday a child on a snowboard will watch in awe as someone speeds by him on the slopes. "What was that?" he'll ask an older person. "They used to be called skiers...
...Citizen Kane is often named the world's best film: because it wants to be. Critics and audiences still respond to its eagerness to create a unique world and to be recognized for this grand achievement. The film both pants for approval and demands to be approached in awe. Glowing with boyish brazenness, Kane is an inspiration to all who see it, especially filmmakers. Here, it says, is what you can do with youth, a blank check and a little genius. A big genius, that is. The first words on the screen herald him with astounding bravado: "A Mercury production...
...fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...
...Faster Island god, weighing in at around the mass of a small car, was encased in ice and anchored to the ground. Cries of victory and epiphany flooded the night air and the creators, about half a dozen of them, sat on the ground and looked up in exhausted awe. The thing they created was greater than any of them...