Word: bafflements
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...sent his intended a parting message by circling letters in a book. ("Kyoko-chan, goodbye," it read. "I love you.") There was Saburo Miyakawa, 20, who on the eve of his mission told Tome he would see her at the eatery the next night. He smiled at her bafflement and explained, "I'll come back as a firefly." When a firefly bobbed into the eatery the next night, Tome cried, "Look, everyone, it's Sabu-chan...
...Family members grapple with their own revulsion and bafflement at what Nariman and they must endure. To do so, the novel suggests, is to fully engage with your own humanity. In the hospital, Nariman, pondering an older orderly, wonders if "collecting feces and urine from the beds of the lame and the halt and the diseased" might be the "necessary conditions" for achieving enlightenment. Watching her youngest boy feed his grandfather, Roxana decides she is "witnessing something almost sacred...
...Moulin Rouge and, most delectably, the barmy aristocrat in A Sense of History (which he wrote) all suggest a beguiling expanse of personality. His work in Iris--as John Bayley, the Oxford professor who escorted his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench), through Alzheimer's disease--adds tragic bafflement to the gifts on display in Broadbent's work. A Golden Globe nomination and laurels from two critics' groups have given the Englishman a new sensation: "I seem to be entering into the strange world of awards...
...nearly the entire ensemble. Leading the pack is Brooks Ashmanskas as Amphitryon’s much-maligned slave Sosia. A dim-witted but earnest fellow, Ashmanskas’ Sosia reacts to his mistreatment at the hands of Mercury (and then practically everyone else in the play) with a bafflement and foolhardiness worthy of a character like Goofy. His attempts to elicit laughter from the audience with overwrought physical antics, while they might be successful with a younger crowd, are almost painful to watch given the Huntington’s somewhat mature clientele...
...that comfortable obscurity came to an abrupt halt. The English Patient went on to win Britain's prestigious and commercially influential Booker Prize and was then turned into a 1996 Academy Award-winning film. A lot of people--those who loved the novel and/or film and those who professed bafflement at all the fuss--began waiting for Ondaatje's next novel...