Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to record any presidential calamity, or what Reagan has termed "the awful-awful." Other reporters were there, some with microphones and tape recorders, to ask the President for his reaction to the latest showdown between the government and Lech Walesa's independent labor movement in Poland. As always, curious onlookers pressed in for a glimpse of the President. They included some union members who had either arrived late for the lunch or left it early to get a closer view of Reagan. There were women with Kodaks, children, and even a mayor, Charles Wright of Davenport, Iowa...
...Lately we have had the curious juxtaposition of Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury in the sky. I have never seen Venus so wonderful in my life and no one will again for a long time. Then, now, all the migratory birds are coming through and there are ten pairs of mocking birds nested here on the place. I play Back on the phonograph to one and he learns it very well. We have a pure black lizard at the pool and I have learned to whistle to him soundlessly so that he comes to me any time I call...
...secretive and reclusive," says a wistful Woody Allen, 45. "I'm not. It's just easier for me to work without a lot of attendant publicity." Thus when Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater announced that Allen was writing a play to open there next month, those curious about The Floating Light Bulb were kept in the dark. Last week, however, Allen agreed to illuminate the work a bit at a photo session with Beatrice Arthur, Jack Weston and other cast members. "It's a modest little play," he insists. "The basic idea is an enclosed domestic...
Madrid, according to legend, became Spain's capital when Ferdinand drew lines from the corners of the country through the middle. They intersected at Madrid. The city is a curious mixture of ornate 16th century architecture and clean-cut neo-classical buildings constructed during the years of fascist rule. The most modern street, something of a cross between Boston's Newbury Street and New York's Fifth Avenue in atmosphere. Proudly bears the name Avenida de Generalissimo Franco...
FROM LOOKING at the pictures, you could see it in his eyes. Flashbulbs might explode in front of his chiseled face, but the light they cast wasn't nearly as bright as the curious beams that burned beneath his brows. He possessed a lambent, almost impatient genius, one that illuminated and absorbed the dark secrets of quantum mechanics and atomic fission. While other scientists stumbled in the darkness, he moved with confidence and ease. He projected his glance into the dark corners of the universe, saw the force that drove the furnace of the stars, and then he brought that...