Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder why the staff does this work. People who are in what we call the helping professions are curious. I think they may feel something missing in their lives. There can be a lot of ego in this profession, a lot of vicarious fulfillment. One wants to see oneself as a good and giving person. There is nothing wrong with that, but it can't be the only goal. The ultimate goal must be a change in the system in which both the giver and the taker live. Life is made better generally. I bet if you had time...
...curious how a novel is there waiting to fall off a tree, and you have to be there to catch it," explains Carlos Fuentes, 57, who waited nearly 30 years for The Old Gringo to ripen into his twelfth novel. His patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo...
...curious thing is that though such painters are present by the acre, the one incontestably major figure of that generation, Anselm Kiefer, has only three paintings in the show, none among his best. Why this should be so is a mystery; but it is hard not to suspect that art-market pressures have been playing on the curators, since nearly all the recent artists in the show except Kiefer and Gerhard Richter (also ill-represented, and only with early work) are in the stable of one German dealer, Michael Werner...
...business has changed dramatically since the time when Gepetto-like craftsmen turned out spinning tops, dolls and sleds. The onetime humble toymakers have evolved into giant fantasy factories that are battling for the hearts and attention of America's children with marching armies of curious and sometimes fearsome characters. This year the two largest U.S. manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, expect to ring up more than $1 billion each in revenues for the first time ever. Total retail toy sales grew 20% last year, thanks to a healthy economy and the excitement stirred by such blockbuster products as Coleco's Cabbage...
Although Gardner filmed Forest of Bliss over a 10-week span (concealing his camera in a green garbage bag so as not to attract the curious masses), he compressed his shots into a single day's medley, sunrise to exquisite sunrise. During the moments after the opening sunrise, we feel baffled, in need of explication. When the sun rises once again, we have experienced what Gardner refers to as "it" and we begin to understand...