Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than three decades Hughes hid the enormous wooden flying boat, with its 320-ft. wingspan (it is the largest plane ever built), behind security so tight that some of his hangar maintenance men never got to see the aircraft. The big hangar itself, a cantilevered, air-conditioned marvel on Terminal Island at Long Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa Corp. The Goose, moved by tugboat last fall to a site a quarter mile away, has a temporary home in a circus tent. A reporter enters the tent prepared...
...glistening silver skull cap. Uther (Gabriel Byrne), boldest of the knights--soon-to-be father of Arthur--hacks through the earnage and calls out to Merlin "I must be King! I must have that sword! I must have Excalibur!" Merlin cackles "In time, Uther, in time." It's a marvelous seene. It promises L'Mort d'Arthur as grand pulp melodrama, with the perfect mixture of Marvel Comies and subtle satire...
...television set has long since evolved from a rare electronic marvel into a household appliance that is as ubiquitous as the kitchen stove. Now, a host of video products is appearing on the market that can transform the home TV from a passive machine capable of receiving broadcast programs into a versatile instrument permitting viewers to watch whatever programs they want, when they want. The latest entry in this market is videodiscs, machines that reproduce recorded programs or movies from a record-like platter onto the screen of any home television set. Next week, RCA Corp. will unleash an avalanche...
...audience comes somewhat prepared, emotionally and mentally, for the music they are going to hear. The attentiveness and sense of participation of the audience is quite remarkable." Pressler and his colleagues consider Sanders among the finest halls in the world in which to play chamber music--"an acoustic marvel," says Greenhouse. "Sanders is a most beautiful sounding theater," continues Pressler. "There is only one problem: no backstage. You go from playing in that beautiful hall, and when you leave the stage you must stand in that cold, cold corridor...
Persistent, eh? But the game was on the road, in Providence, even. It was before a hostile crowd of 1500 at Brown's Marvel Gym. It was raining outside...