Word: awe
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...hotel room. And Miss Black America of 1990, the first to make the buttock-fondling charge, has sued Tyson for $100 million. The allegations threaten to abort Tyson's November fight with current title holder Evander Holyfield -- the ex-champ's chance to recapture his old glory and the awe he once commanded in and outside the ring...
...Hollywood tells us, only an afterlife. By now you are familiar with all those transcendental rehab movies -- Ghost and its spectrally sentimental cousins -- in which people return from the void to get a chance to say (What else?) "I love you." Audiences lose themselves in a teary mixture of awe and awww at these wistful fantasies, which now constitute an entire genre: sigh...
Modern life suffers from the Mona Lisa complex, the idea that when you finally see a legendary work of art, it inevitably disappoints, appearing somehow smaller and less awe inspiring than you had imagined it. Except Michael Jordan...
While Soviet specialists tend to abhor the U.S.S.R., China scholars usually love China. George Bush's assignment as head of the U.S. mission in Beijing during the 1970s was diplomatic rather than scholarly, but it had the same seductive effect on him. Even now he seems in awe of the Chinese society that he lived in for 14 months. When formulating U.S. policy toward Beijing, he relies entirely on the China expert he respects the most: himself...
...most prominent Washington monuments, one is 555 ft. tall, and the other is Clark Clifford, who has practiced law and government in the capital for 46 years. Unlike the marble monument, Clifford inspires genuine awe among even the most jaded political operators: few have served their country more admirably while in government -- or greased the wheels so effectively for clients after entering private practice...