Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game itself had started on an odd--uh, note. At Brown's Marvel Gym, the visiting Harvard Band played the national anthem, because Brown's band was at the Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships. "We have a good chance of winning," one fan explained. Presumably, Brown basketball didn't have the same choice...
Until recently, the citizens of Sarajevo did not realize that they lacked a bob and luge run?in fact such a marvel did not exist in all of Yugoslavia?but now they have one, on the wooded slopes of 1,629-meter Mount Trebevic, one of the big, round-shouldered hills that guard Sarajevo on three sides. There is also a fine new indoor skating complex, an assertively modern structure with brown, smoked reflecting glass in the entryways and windows and, in the manner of the Pompidou Center in Paris, intentionally exposed ventilation pipes visible outside. Near...
Apple hopes that Mac will differ from Lisa in one important way: popularity. While Lisa was touted last year as a technological marvel, it has been a market dud. The company hoped to sell 50,000 in 1983, but sold fewer than 20,000. The main criticism of Lisa was its $10,000 price...
...strands that run through his daytime wear, the dominant one is meticulous tailoring. An outfit in loden green wool tweed, made for the Dior label, is a marvel of classic grace achieved through proportion and soft pleating. Pants, which Saint Laurent thinks may be his biggest contribution to fashion, have clear, economical lines, never exaggerated, never mannish. Good tailoring is behind what is truly his greatest influence on clothing, the huge (172 outlets) international string of Rive Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples...
...life, as his attempt to approximate their diet (mice) and territory-marking habits illustrate. These two comical and slightly disgusting episodes grow out of the film's deeply serious message, that it is not for us to quantify and tame nature, but simply to live in it and marvel...