Word: marvelling
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...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...
This climax neatly parodies one of the sillier conventions of romantic thrillers, but the picture is rarely that delicately tuned. Ugo Tognazzi remains a marvel of sympathetic understatement as the, er, straight man, but Michel Serrault's performance has a forced, even panicky quality here, perhaps because his role is not as well written as it was the first time, lacking as it does both sympathy and well-made gags. Director Molinaro handles most of the action scenes perfunctorily, never realizing their full value either as suspense or as comedy. Since no one has bothered to think up anything...
After Galileo announced the wonders revealed by his new optical marvel -among them the mountains and valleys of the moon-many of his contemporaries were overwhelmed. The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler called Galileo's spy glass "more precious than any scepter! He who holds thee in his right hand is a true king, a world ruler." With the space telescope, his successors may be moved to echo that exultation. -By Frederic Golden