Word: awestruck
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Birth of a House. Liveright, who had a penchant for backing Broadway flops, needed cash, so he sold Cerf a vice-presidency for $25,000. "My first job," remembers Cerf, still awestruck, "was to take Theodore Dreiser to a ball game. Theodore Dreiser! Those were the '20s! Things were popping, and publishing was popping too! Oh God, it was a glamorous place...
Hollywood has long been skillful in turning good books into bad movies, but Is Paris Burning is an unfortunate perversion of that well-worn theme--it takes a pretentious chunk of bad journalism and turns it into an even worse film. One is nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...
...grumble that Nebraska is "long on finances and short on academics.' That kind of criticism doesn't bother the pro scouts. Devaney already has furnished the pros with twelve players, and this year's crop of Cornhuskers is the most attractive yet. Murmured one awestruck scout, watching Nebraska take the field: "When they run out there, you can see the field tilt...
...Project 600," the conference-headquarters complex itself. Dominating it all was a twelve-story structure built to Nkrumah's taste-the luxurious bulletproof, bomb-resistant VIP hotel, known to local wags as "the Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that Africa, mourning for her enslaved children still under oppression, will look for comfort...
...capacity crowd of 4500 fans jammed Cornell's Barton Hall and watched awestruck as the powerful Crimson invaders scored solidly in every event except the pole vault and finished with 65 points, six more than Yale's record total in 1961. Navy managed 35 points to gain second place. Army, with 30, was third...