Word: heavenward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just then that aeroplane backfired overhead and I reflexively threw my beer into the air and watched it roll frothily down into the Saharan valley. But I payed my brewskie no heed because my eyes were glued heavenward. Holly, Dave and I stood agape, for humankind's wizardry had faltered. The engine of the plane had stopped...
...truth is, he probably wouldn't have. Vulgarity and showmanship were always part of the Bernstein artistic ethos. Waggling his hips to Haydn, looking heavenward for motivation in Mahler, Lenny was a marketer's dream, and no one marketed himself more shrewdly than Mr. Music. It was a source of lifelong frustration to him that his serious works -- the symphonies, the operas, the Mass -- were not taken more seriously. But how could they be, when they don't add up to Tonight from West Side Story? It's as if Elvis wanted to be regarded as a troubadour...
...BOTTOM LINE: An alternative rock band looks heavenward for inspiration and nearly finds musical salvation...
...Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala, Fla., urge a macrame snood over the entire building, and a Los Angeles atheist knows exactly what he doesn't want: depictions of Pilgrims on their knees, or any ethnically mixed group gazing heavenward. Our Founding Fathers were, he argues, "Europe's overflow of malcontents . . . drifters who were miserable elsewhere." White People reveals a once well-rooted folk searching for new and better places in which to be miserable...
...will yet grow into a swan. Eventually, its central spire will climax in a gold cross reaching at least 170 meters toward the sky, making it Europe's tallest church. At the current construction rate, that will not happen until the 21st century. But as Gaudi once said, pointing heavenward, "My client isn't in any hurry...