Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who watch her play. She went from 7th nationally to 5th to 3rd and finally 1st this year. She also led Harvard to an Ivy League and national championship, so I guess a portion of her trophy case should be left here for all to gaze in awe...
...Crumb wrote a Valentine to himself that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
AAAH, remember lunches in the Union--those days when you sat, nibbling at your chickwich in a crowd of entry mates, staring up in awe at the antler chandeliers and wondering if Teddy Roosevelt really had anything to do with them? Well, cherish that memory if you're not a senior. Once first-year dining has moved over to Memorial Hall, you won't even have a Return-to-the-Union "Champagne Senior Brunch" to remind...
...Washington some advisers were urging Ford to reassure the American public that there was no chance the U.S. would be dragged back into the war: Vietnam was lost. But Ford was in awe of Kissinger, and, says Robert Hartmann, chief White House speech writer, "Kissinger, for negotiating reasons, was not ready to throw in the towel." Hartmann persisted, telling Ford "nobody declared this war, but you can declare the end of it." He remembers that Ford's "brow furrowed and he said 'I'm not sure Henry would approve...
...problem with this kind of filmmaking has always been caution. And that's what is wrong with Jefferson in Paris. It's as if everyone was just a little too much in tasteful awe of its subject, who is played rather stolidly by Nick Nolte. They are afraid to grant him his full vitality or give full dramatic life to the issues, public and personal, that stirred him during the five years (1784-89) when, recently widowed, he served as the new American republic's ambassador to France...