Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Degas once remarked, that are indistinguishable from panic. So it seems with the present boom in the art market. For the past 15 years or so, collectors, dealers, auction houses and their willing accomplices, journalists, have been moved to pleasure, then wonder, and now to a sort of popeyed awe at the upward movement of art prices. If art was once expected to provoke un nouveau frisson, a new kind of shudder, its present function is to become a new type of bullion. Thus, we are told by art industry flacks, people now respect art. They flock to museums...
...natural world. But now, in the postStar Wars era, stories are created merely to provide a feeble excuse for the effects. Star Trek consists almost entirely of this kind of material: shot after shot of vehicles sailing through the firmament to the tune of music intended to awe. But the spaceships take an unconscionable amount of time to get anywhere, and nothing of dramatic or human interest happens along the way. Once the ships reach their destination, they do not encounter the kind of boldly characterized antagonists that made Star Wars such fun. In fact, they do not meet...
Commanding the finest star cruiser around, Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner, serial number SC 937-0176) spread Truth, Justice and The American Way through the galaxy. A native of Iowa, the good captain spent most of his time on the bridge of the Enterprise, barking orders, gazing in awe at some celestial wonder, outwitting foes, and saving the universe at least once every few months. He loved power, women, and most of all, his ship...
Last Wednesday, the Crimson turned in a stirring overtime win over normally awe-inspiring Boston University. And last night, the icemen shocked the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats, the defending ECAC champions, with a 4-1 victory before 3194 at cavernous Snively Arena...
Both Harvard and UT are 1-0 in the season coming into tonight's contest, but that's where the similarities end. The Crimson may find itself gaping in awe of the Garden's cavernous depths after spending most of its time in the laughable broomcloset called home court...