Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young Welles did more than anticipate, somehow, his disappointment and decline. Through Kane he revealed how we all, as we age, become smudged parodies of ourselves--more comfortable in our weaknesses, less sure...
Then again, that play itself isn't all that great. It's funny, but distressing and not terribly meaningful. Even if the production isn't deep, it is an amazing visual experience to marvel...
...American, what do I care? Every time I read about one of the princesses getting her toes sucked, I marvel once again at the wisdom of our own Founding Fathers. Maybe they couldn't foresee that in 200 years or so the British royal line would dissolve in farce. Maybe they thought the madness would end with the notoriously bonkers George III. But they knew there was something inherently wrong with the idea that political power resides in a strand of DNA, or that the fate of a nation--or even just its self-respect--should depend on the sexual...
...Holiday today seems an unsettled mixture of the proudly naughty and the primly didactic; when the women aren't smoking, they're apt to be decrying various social ills. This new production likewise straddles two worlds: the here and now, a place in which uncommitted young people marvel uneasily as their elders assemble astonishing fortunes; and the there and then, a zone where Cary and Kate banter toward a luminous happy-ever-after...
...real marvel, says Conway Morris, is how familiar so many of these animals seem. For it was during the Cambrian (and perhaps only during the Cambrian) that nature invented the animal body plans that define the broad biological groupings known as phyla, which encompass everything from classes and orders to families, genera and species. For example, the chordate phylum includes mammals, birds and fish. The class Mammalia, in turn, covers the primate order, the hominid family, the genus Homo and our own species, Homo sapiens...