Word: marvell
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...Record, Frusciante has created a marvel of restrained, melancholy power pop where less is more. As someone once remarked of a Sun Ra piano solo, "Anyone could have played that. But no one else could have thought...
...result is clear as sludge on Paris' notoriously befouled sidewalks, whose doo-slickened surfaces cause 650 hospitalizations a year and rank as Parisians' third-biggest gripe about their city. Tourists also marvel at the mess, a situation that in part shaped Cho's form of protest. "I wanted it to be an international message everyone would understand," says he. "I began using French flags to suggest we Parisians are so proud of our dog poop that we display it all over our sidewalks. I think visitors and residents alike get the irony of the message...
...reason Clinton demands the penthouse is his curious sibling rivalry with his wife. How could he stand to have Hillary advancing in glory while he receded? How will the bizarre dynamic of the Clinton marriage express itself now that she's the one in power? Clinton's a marvel of the age. But is Hillary? No one could be married to Bill Clinton for so many years without certain survival skills. But mere endurance is not enough. Watching the Clintons march on, and on, and on is an existential experience. There has not been a couple quite so tedious...
...billion dollar mission. It's a technological marvel," Narayan said...
...introduction, Smith writes of the Kennedy family with a sometimes rueful eloquence: "As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel...at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences...Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce...