Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the world has beheld the gulf war and its outcome, the riveting seven-month video, with expressions of admiration, awe, wariness, discomfort and, in the case of many Arabs, a sense of rage and sorrow and betrayal. Nearly everyone is puzzled by the idea of a new world order...
...book was minor Thompson, lacking the snaky obsession of The Killer Inside Me or A Hell of a Woman. And Frears has turned it into a minor movie. Its characters are too small and twisted for sympathy; its pace is too studied, a little too in awe of its artfulness, to pack a wallop. It needs to move, but doesn't, at the pace a bus-station reader would devour a paperback thriller...
...kick off USC's 17-2 run that turned a close 26-22 game midway through the first half into a blowout six minutes later. He did answer Harvard's best second-half rally by swishing two straight off-balance three-pointers. And he did throw down that awe-inspiring take-off-from-the-foul-line-and-fly reverse dunk that left the arena in an uproar. But those were lucky. The stiff would have been shut out if Harvard hadn't been...uh... double-teaming down low, where Coleman was held to...uh...18 points...
When residents of the Real World go strolling through the Yard, wondering in awe of the brilliant students they see sitting on the steps of Widener (students who are probably blowing off work and bagging classes), they must be perplexed by the unfamiliar vocabulary they over-hear. The tourists are probably under the mistaken impression that our diction is just too sophisticated for them to understand--that it has something to do with Kant, Nietzsche or Wittgenstein...
...mystery for any one movie. "What I've seen of the rich," Alan snorts, "you can have them." Claus fairly purrs, "I do." This corrosive comedy of high manners has them down right. It knows that these rich are different. They are worthy of our derision and awe...