Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked about Nathans, former colleaguesspeak in tones that betray awe. Known by thenickname "Ibby," the Vassar College graduate iswell-known for reporting to campus before 7 a.m.on some workdays and for always wearing a beeper,two practices she plans to continue at Harvard...
When asked about Nathans, former colleaguesspeak in tones that betray awe. Known by thenickname "Ibby," the Vassar College graduate iswell-known for reporting to campus before 7 a.m.on some workdays and for always wearing a beeper,two practices she plans to continue at Harvard...
...French critic Robert Benayoun writes in a sympathetic biography of Allen, "the source of numerous stories ((that)) turned her private life into a national joke." Keaton and Farrow, his two longtime romantic companions and frequent co-stars, often played neurotic child-women, stuttering to finish a sentence, in wry awe of the man in their grasp: Woody Allen. He may have idolized them too, but with the indulgent devotion of a grownup to his precocious daughter...
...swimming -- the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m -- and will likely join freestyle and medley relays. She could come close to the tally of her heroine, Kristin Otto of East Germany, whose six gold medals at Seoul are a record for a woman in any sport. Thompson's awe at that feat is tinged with healthy skepticism and a yen for battle. "To take over from the East Germans would be the ultimate revenge," she says. "To do, without drugs, what they did with drugs would be an unreal accomplishment...
...bondage. Inside every princess is the clock of decay, which ticks remorselessly until she loses her looks, her grace, everything but her love -- you can read that in the eyes. In Peter's eyes too. They course with anger when he feels he has lost Rita; they moisten in awe when he finds his love in a most unexpected place...