Word: marvel
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...Whenever Bill and Ted speak in unison. Marvel at their coordination...
OPENED. Qinghai-Tibet Railway, a 1,142-km, $4.2 billion engineering marvel connecting the remote Tibetan capital to the rest of China; in Lhasa. While the Chinese government has hailed the rail link as an important step in developing Tibet's economy, critics say it threatens the country's delicate environment and will erode Buddhist culture by increasing an influx of ethnic Chinese immigrants. Reaching an altitude of 5,000 meters, the railway is the world's highest; tickets for its inaugural July 1 journey sold out within 20 minutes of going on sale last Thursday...
...This, of course, piques Miranda's interest. What in the world is this silly goose doing in her swan-like presence? Streep is, predictably, a marvel as Miranda - flapping her wings, nipping at her perpetually frightened flock, hissing her contempt for their frightened ways. She is always softly wondering why it is such a "challenge" for her car not to be present exactly when she needs it. Or why the staff is late for the meeting she's moved up the time for. Or why someone dares to propose a feature on enamel costume jewelry when they did the same...
...Gilding the lily - casting the everyday and unexceptional in the most grandiose terms - has always been a weakness of boomers, who in their youth would sometimes compare Captain Marvel comic books to the Sistine Chapel or call Yoko Ono an artist. Overstatement has been George W. Bush's prime rhetorical technique. When he drew our attention to a handful of troublesome regimes, he couldn't just call them troublesome regimes; instead they ballooned into an "axis of evil." His hope of stabilizing the Middle East by fostering self-government was not just a geostrategic Hail Mary - it would lead...
...Streep, in particular, is a marvel - a cheerfully pious woman refusing to admit disappointment and doing her best to divert her adolescent daughter (an excellent Lindsay Lohan) from her addiction to writing suicidal poetry. It seems to me that she, alone of the cast, has the true Keillorian spirit, which is simply to use a kind of perpetual perkiness to elbow aside the surrounding dread (or at least darkness). I'm guessing, of course, but I suspect that's a spirit that she found in herself, that it's not something Altman coaxed out of her. There's no evidence...