Word: priceless
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...There is for me in science a marvelous beauty, a great exultation, an inexpressible enthusiasm that makes these experiences seem priceless, and I have a great yearning that each of my friends in the audience shall also experience the thrilled yet calm certainty that this beauty makes me feel. I want to fill them with a sense of power, a sense of victory, and a sense of potentiality...
...possesses an abrasive personal style, usually directed at underlings. Members of a U.S. Senate group that met with him in Leningrad in 1978 were shocked at his surly treatment of an interpreter. There is also a scandal in his past: he has been dogged by stories that he borrowed priceless china from Leningrad's Hermitage museum for a daughter's wedding reception and that some pieces were broken. But he is a realist in politics. "Romanov has a controversial reputation, but he will remain a loyalist unless Gorbachev makes a major mistake," says Simes...
...then: BANG! Dazzling Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) splays onto the hood of Ed's Toyota, cries, "Get me out of here!" and leads him into the night. Once the movie wakes up, it never lets up, in pace or plot invention. Seems Diana / has smuggled past Customs six priceless emeralds "from the scepter of an ancient Persian king" and concealed them (we won't say where) for delivery to one of those hotshot sheiks who in the past decade have turned parts of L.A. into a Little Araby. As for ordinary Ed, he will risk death, betrayal and another 24 hours...
...threw parades for Hill, 20. Nobody is fighting over him now. "I'm training out of L.A., without a manager yet," he explained in a dim dressing room, though the comparative worth of gold and silver was plain to see. Just as Hill was saying, "My medal is priceless," that haunting Olympic bugling sounded out by the ring, announcing Junior Lightweight Meldrick Taylor...
...technology has increasingly enabled global adversaries to sort through vast amounts of airborne telebabble in search of key words and phrases, ordinary telecommunications have become a priceless source of intelligence for the Soviet Union and, possibly, other nations. Says New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Vice Chairman of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence: "The targets of Soviet interception of telephone communications now include our businesses, our banks, our brokerage houses, as frequently as our Government agencies . . . Private communications of all sorts have been violated, and on a scale that dwarfs any previous surveillance effort by friend...