Word: awe
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...wondrous creatures they spotted: a white octopus with earlike flaps known as a Dumbo octopus, an anglerfish with what look like primitive hands and a spindly 11-armed sea star. Some were previously unknown to science. "I came away asking new questions," says Figueroa. Viewers will come away in awe. --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York
...world autocracy. How is it possible that a program run to benefit Iraqi citizens could end up giving money to the terrorists who are now so regularly blowing them to pieces? Because the United Nations is, and has been for some time, corrupt. The media should lose their outdated awe for the United Nations and recognize it for what it is: not a utopian world-government but a Byzantine, unaccountable, deeply flawed and all too often selfish bureaucracy...
...uninhabitable. "The country wanted to go to sand dunes and rattlesnakes," she writes, "wanted to scrape off its human ticks." All the same, most of the 11 stories in this book are lighter in tone than those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers a very effective means for dealing with unlicensed hunters, Proulx renews the Western tradition of the short story as the tall tale...
Student ensembles coached by Robert Levin and Daniel Stepner present two programs of chamber music. Listen in awe as the orchestras play the works of Ravel, Faure, Beethoven, Ritter and Mozart and songs of Poulenc, Strauss, Schubert and Wolf. 7:30 p.m. Free. Also Monday at 7:30 p.m. Paine Hall Music Building...
...film, but rather as the Crouching Tiger imitation it largely is. But though the film is hardly groundbreaking, it is still worth watching. Its themes and morals are a bit musty, but they’re still lofty, and evoke the greatness that Flying Daggers achieves best in its awe-inspiring visual bravado...