Word: awe
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...horror. I saw The Amityville Horror on Times Square, and there wasn't anybody talking back at the screen. There was total silence, which is unusual for 42nd Street. It was awe. The silence you'd hear in a medieval church, I thought. That's what horror is -- the church of 42nd Street...
...often been said that the best way to improve is to compete against the masters--and that's exactly what Harvard did. "The difference between East and West Coast water polo is the difference between college and professional football," Wolff said. "It was kind of awe-inspiring, just being in the pool with the guys who will be the 1988 Olympic team...
...head of the $17.5 billion Loews corporate empire is often surprising but rarely anything less than impressive. On Wall Street, where wizards come and go with the shifting sands of the stock market, Larry Tisch has for decades inspired awe as an uncannily successful investor. He is cautious where others are carefree, daring while others are timid. In corporate boardrooms across the U.S., Tisch is known and feared as a tough negotiator who will disarm his strongest adversary and tenaciously protect his investments. To his 22,000 employees, the name Tisch is synonymous with an unerring ability to control...
...glittering rings on his fingers, a sound track played Sade's pop hit, Smooth Operator. Mitchell, 32, had been stabbed to death in Leavenworth penitentiary while serving a life sentence for drug-trafficking conspiracy. But in the faces of young people who lined the funeral route were expressions of awe...
...Siri Erickson, another Cushing resident, from 1967 to 1972. The paintings of her were also withheld, until she turned 21, and their release in 1975 caused a little of the same stir that the Helgas have. Siri, now 32 and the mother of two girls, recalls no embarrassment or awe about posing nude for Wyeth when she was 13. "He would get totally involved in his work. It was as if you were a tree," she says. "He's a normal, everyday person. He does paint good, but he's just Andy...