Word: puzzlement
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...know. The fact is that George W. Bush can probably do little to change the national mood--or the national judgment of him--over the next 18 months. For our part, however, we can hope that future historians look back on our adolescent moodiness of 2007 with as much puzzlement as some college students showed recently when I tried to explain to them just how it was that Perot got all those votes 15 years...
Crewdson has made some fascinating pictures, enigmatic scenes of puzzlement, regret and frustration. But for an artist, an infatuation with movies can be a tricky thing. He made a wrong turn with the Dream House series he worked on from 1998 to 2002, where for the first time he recruited famous faces to play his people. No doubt getting Gwyneth Paltrow and Philip Seymour Hoffman to appear in your photographs brings you enhanced market cred. Put Julianne Moore in front of your camera, and you're practically doing a Vanity Fair shoot. Let's assume that Crewdson also hoped that...
...September was just the latest shock from a bracing new field, the science of consciousness. Questions once confined to theological speculations and late-night dorm-room bull sessions are now at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience. With some problems, a modicum of consensus has taken shape. With others, the puzzlement is so deep that they may never be resolved. Some of our deepest convictions about what it means to be human have been shaken...
...Wildcats history in career assists. But it’s a no-look pass, a bit of misdirection; he adds three more letters to the beginning and spells out “Swedish” on the double word score, for a cool 28. The puzzlement on my face must be evident—and it is not just the snobbery of a Harvard kid getting seven-letter schooled by an Arizona barely-grad—because he quickly explains that he was born in Stockholm, and is, in fact, Swedish.Big as his lead now is, he left...
...seven Halloweens, beginning at age six. It was an impressive streak that went happily uninterrupted save a brief, ill-advised turn as a pale pink Care Bear.But when my relatives glance at this undoubtedly adorable photo today, they don’t smile and laugh. Instead, their lips purse, puzzlement sets in, and they begin to wonder: what happened to you? As it happens, I’ve been wondering a bit too.I’m 20 years old, a junior in college. I’m only a year or so removed from that time when my peers...