Word: awestruck
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...last week. Storming the barricades of conventional fashion was Designer Yves Saint Laurent, 40, whose latest haute couture collection could alter the way women will dress in the next decade. The 800 or so journalists, store buyers and private clients invited to the lavish showing were awestruck. Some were even reduced to tears as Saint Laurent's models glided along the runway, demonstrating what many predicted would be the New New Look: narrow waist, calf-length bouffant skirt for daytime and huge, all-enveloping coat...
...sporting the kind of heavy leather trench coat that suggests Slavic villainy the way a black stetson in a western signals evil. He takes special delight in tor turing Jews. After inflicting one especially impassioned beating, Harvey makes his way out of the traditionally dank subterranean cell as an awestruck underling inquires, "What now? Are you going back to the office...
Colombian Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's only novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was a seismic literary event in Latin America when first published in 1967. Translated three years later, it received awestruck notices in the U.S., and has continued to attract not so much readers as proselytizers. The chronicle of an enchanted town called Macondo, it is a "good read" in the Dickensian sense: it has abundant life, a tangle of characters and plots, all supported by a clear moral viewpoint...
...Cape Kennedy last week, Golden and Neff found the launch site's jammed press bleachers more than faintly reminiscent of a class reunion. "There's always plenty of backslapping and laughter," says Neff, "but when those rockets fire up, the oldtimers are as wide-eyed and awestruck as kids at the circus...
...million a day, went to the courts for an injunction, and were refused. Finally, on the last day of the legislative session, the legislature cleared a bill. Three days later. Moore signed it into law: and the miners, in triumph, went back to work. "This time." said an awestruck Charleston TV news analyst. "the pros were outmaneuvered by the amateurs. And I say, good for the miners. I just wish more average citizens would become amateur lobbyists...