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...looking for america, there's no need to buy a Greyhound bus ticket - just drop in at London's Hayward Gallery before mid-September. Photographers Ansel Adams and William Eggleston reveal the country's awe-inspiring natural phenomena, as well as the lurid traces of human occupation...
...still in awe at the young talent that has come up in the last two or three years, especially the pitching. You look around at the amount of young pitching in baseball right now, it's pretty staggering. It's cyclical. In the All-Star game, there will be five shortstops on the American League team. Potentially, five of the top ten shortstops of all time are playing right...
...copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking and, in 1926, produced 60 songs for six shows. But Rodgers didn't lose anything off his fast ball when he teamed with Hammerstein; it is said he composed the entire...
Even though I love them, they are haunting in my dreams. When I see grizzlies in the northwestern Montana forest up here, in real life, it is more exhilarating than frightening. After the bear has seen or heard or scented me and galloped away in alarm, a feeling of awe remains. Almost always the bears run away. Sometimes if they feel that they don't have an escape route, they will bluff charge, veering away hard at the last yard, the last foot, the last inch. I don't know why they are so much more frightening in my dreams...
...Monica Vitti's hair, in the crystalline monochrome of "L'Avventura," than on the subtlety with which Vitti reveals a wounded soul through huge, blank eyes. In all Scorsese's reveries of a boyhood falling in love with movies, there's no talk of a boy's love-fear-awe-thrill at the women who animated those movies. His wafting memories hardly carry the scent of a woman...