Word: awed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very first day of the Games, David Robinson, the dignified Dream Teamer, was asked if the rest of the world was growing less awestruck of the American professionals. Yes, he said, "and our job is to re-create that awe." Carl Lewis did that in Atlanta, and Michael Johnson, and Alexei Nemov, and Deng Yeping. All Atlanta, no stranger to reconstruction, set about making the wonder feel young again...
...areas of homemaking none is so clear as my experience with food preparation. All those years of shunning learning how to cook (since I equated it with the evil of domesticity) show through clearly in my helplessness in preparing even the simplest meal. I tried to hide my awe when one of my roommates threw two chicken breasts and some oil into a pan and out came dinner. I still haven't gotten to the point of boldly stepping up to the stove and trying to do it myself...
...last of them, his unfinished The Large Bathers, 1906, one sees the characteristics that have always rendered these peculiar arcadian scenes difficult to love even as they compel admiration and even a certain awe. This group of 14 stock nudes gathered around what must have been a picnic basket is as resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum...
...fascinated with rampaging nature? For one thing, it's something we can all relate to and be in awe of. "Severe weather is the great equalizer," says Bob Potter, director of home video for National Geographic Television. Watching people getting manhandled by violent storms, moreover, adds a little excitement to our own humdrum battles with the elements. (Better bundle up--and take that umbrella!) Perhaps, too, it makes us a little more comfortable in our own good sense. Those crazy storm chasers may get some neat pictures, but at least we know enough to come in out of the rain...
...least that is how it appeared to awe-struck House Republicans, who desperately craved Scrooge-makes-good stories as they pushed their budget-balancing legislation last year. Engler began commuting to Washington as a combination welfare guru and motivational speaker. Republican commentator Mary Matalin remembers what the House freshmen took away from one pep talk: "You gotta lead. They're going to demagogue you, your numbers are going to go down, but you have to hang...