Word: awe
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...ones for which there are in fact answers. For its July issue, W magazine brought Ohno to the Dominican Republic where, serendipitously, the Clintons and Chelsea's boyfriend IAN KLAUS happened to be on vacation. When W asked them to pose together, the Clintons eagerly agreed. "They were in awe of Apolo, treating him like a celebrity," says W fashion director Joe Zee. In return, Ohno apparently made no snide comments about Bill's shirt...
...with his Indian lover and their children?and the exotic chintz, porcelain, and tea sets snapped up by fashionable Brits all testify to the discomforting link between warm-and-fuzzy multiculturalism and hungry global capital. The trouble is, the Company can occasionally come off as nothing more threatening?or awe-inspiring?than an international plate collectors' club. What's missing from "Trading Places" isn't a medicinal dose of political correctness, but the full drama of early capitalism and conquest...
...masquerade. Maybe, if we push aside our egos and our anxieties, we can allow ourselves to don a new set of costumes, even if only for an hour, an afternoon, a day. In these looser garments we just might be able to reclaim our sense of awe and wonder, our carefree abandon, our willingness to jump blindly into unknown waters below. And, while we can never recapture those people who through death or distance have left us forever, we may, for a fleeting moment, recapture the feelings we shared with them. In this passing instant we may get back some...
...tastes like orange juice!” While the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals chowed down on chicken fried rice and drank deeply from the Kong’s “communal cup,” I, along with my classmates in Religion 1513, observed in awe...
...many specific regrets, and I would not want to give up the experiences I’ve had and the particular people that I’ve loved for an alternative undergraduate existence. But at the same time, I have been unable to shake a more general sense of awe in the face of what I didn’t have control over, didn’t see and didn’t know...