Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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
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...