Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is enough. Visiting in Israel to set up her first major solo show next month, she offered eight small works for sale. Within two hours all were snapped up for $100 to $150 each. Yet the lady still protests. "Nothing makes me angrier," says she, "than the awe and reverence with which people regard me because of my father's name...
...lurked in the back parlors of the Negro section of Oklahoma City where he grew up. "He can take a watch chain or something and tell you the whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with him in real life, rose from bed, drove through the night for three hours, and indeed found his brother in Connecticut helpless, alone and in dire medical...
...awe give themselves up to the essence of things...
...prime example is The Silence, Bergman's latest failure. Looking only at the composition, and hearing only the natural sound effects, Bergman's virtuosity is awe-inspiring. The man plans every single element which enters the camera's field: nothing is superfluous. A horse cart moves slowly down a street and white-roofed cars pass it regularly, creating a subtle montage. Scene after scene of such frame making constitutes a first-class lesson in cinema as graphic...
...fact, for his britches. Once, during this period, he told a group of visiting political-science scholars: "On any issue, I have at least ten Senators in the palm of my hand." At the same time, says a Senate aide, who watched Bobby's rise with some awe, "the lobbyists were swarming around his office like flies. They buttered him up, kept telling him how great he was, and I think a lot of his trouble now comes because he got to believing...