Word: awe
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Cohen's teammate Meissner has been blissfully oblivious to the Olympic gauntlet. At a pre-Olympic summit last fall, Meissner trailed Cohen like a puppy and watched in awe as Cohen deftly defused question after question from reporters about not skating up to her potential and always competing in Kwan's shadow. It was a crash course for the teenager in accepting the baggage that comes with being an Olympic-caliber skater. Even if Meissner is not as polished as Cohen or Kwan--"Sometimes I can't believe the dumb things I say"--her candor makes her a refreshing addition...
...velvet Love Lounge or take a dip in the company pool. Lasseter is the ringleader, a man whose imagination fills every frame and inspires the troops. "He has a posse around him constantly," says a staff member who works closely with him. Other studio bosses are in awe of Pixar's six-for-six record. "Because of the pictures Pixar has made, the bar has been set incredibly high," says Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much the same way as this. With carefully chosen images and words, the reader is transported across the tyranny of time, to face a century of terror and awe...
...some industry executives are skeptical. "So far, the company's driving him," says Gerald Meyers, former CEO of the defunct American Motor Co. and an expert in crisis management. "He needs to say, 'This is not about the past, this is about the future--we need some shock and awe.' Is Bill Ford prepared to do that? I don't see it so far." Counters Mark Fields, president of Ford's Americas division, who put together the restructuring plan for North America: "You don't have to be a tyrant to be tough." Certainly, anyone willing...
...government and economics are highly advanced forms of witchcraft”—Russell has an opinion on most things, and those opinions are usually very funny, if untamed.Beyond a sense of humor, Russell’s instruction of Great Books makes good use of his awe-inspiring linguistic talent. Armed with a whiteboard, a recent discussion of Psalms saw Russell explore the origins and departures of the word “holy” from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Lithuanian. (Later, in the midst of serving Armenian cherry-flavored brandy out of a Diet...