Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always expected a place like Harvard to be awe-inspiring and overwhelming--but I have not felt daunted or intimidated," he explains...
...control of the film and no changes to be made without his approval?he agreed to work for a minimal salary and a percentage of whatever profit there may be. To meet expenses, he is selling his house. Today this furious man speaks of Keaton with a kind of awe: "She has more artistic courage than anyone I know...
...from curving, scimitar tusks to flippers braced against a rock. One sculpted walrus seems almost about to snort and lumber into the water with the gigantic plosh of several tons of blubber. After stalking these creatures for centuries the hunter-artists sculpt them with a combination of humor and awe...
Given the audience, the quality of the nostalgia stirred is something less than an exercise in historic imagination. Said one 26-year-old, looking back on the golden age of Beatledom, "I just remember everybody screaming in the seventh grade." Or as Charles McGinnis, 24, put it with some awe, "This is the closest you are ever going to get to seeing the Beatles. It's the one chance...
...Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians overthrow of the republic. Luke is an irresistible figure, the country bumpkin with just the right touch of idealism and star-struck awe to endear him to any audience. He saves the day of course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signalling the end of the dark days in the universe. While the dogfight that leads...