Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be forgotten. Alfred J. Hopf Madison...
...Cronkite or at least Hugh (Downs for a hilarious few weeks in 1975, even Ed Sullivan), but that was so long ago. He will continue on the radio, and he will not be alone. For 41 years, his wife Emmy has stood by him with a devotion that might awe Mother Teresa. Besides that, he has all the love on the street. --By Tom Callahan
...discovers Bob Hope and Groucho Marx, and collects parodies of a Cole Porter lyric: "Night and day under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me." The critic does not always twinkle; even Eugene O'Neill is regarded without awe because "no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously." As this rare and delightful scrapbook proves, O'Neill's was one affliction Benchley would never suffer...
...Profession. At first it seems a little odd to see her instead as a dithery, warmhearted mother who is preoccupied with her children's welfare, but she brings to the part a serene decency that makes her a believable object of deference from her offspring, if not outright awe...
...about a seemingly nice suburban family that viewers had to resolve for themselves. And Winged Migration turned every moviegoer into an awestruck ornithologist. The moral: films needn't serve as just pacifiers or pulse racers. That's what Hollywood does. Get people arguing, thinking. Stir them to anger or awe. That's docu-tainment...