Word: marvell
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Colette would have been a marvel wherever she was and whatever she did -there was nothing that escaped those lynxlike eyes-but she might not have become a writer. That was the work of her first husband, the infamous Willy, who set her to work writing potboilers, to which he affixed his own signature. That arrangement did not last long, however, and before the century was into its teens, Colette was writing modern classics under her own name. Her confidence, her courage and her determination undoubtedly came from her mother, whom she worshiped, and one of the most poignant passages...
...read it, to suspect this. Alas, that a mere 20 lines, without fancy effects or embossing of any kind, should make such demands. It's the proportions that give me the greatest trouble. And I have such a horror of grandiloquent finales." "To live without writing, oh marvel!" she added at another point. But when she was old and someone asked her why she continued to toil so diligently, she seemed shocked by the question. "It's my work," she replied...
...people in the stadium don't tell the whole tale. The 4,000 or so fans that spent the entire game on the railroad tracks at the east end of the field, pressed against a construction fence and without much of a view, are a marvel in themselves...
...good measure, Georgia has replaced Alabama as the top-ranked team in both the Associated Press sportswriters' poll and the United Press International coaches' poll, the first time since World War II that the Bulldogs have led the national rankings. Jubilant Georgians are unfurling bumper stickers that marvel: HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS...
Sally's nephew Ken (Christopher Reeve), who now owns the Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...