Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single attempt has been made to remedy the audience's puzzlement, and its seemliness is tenuous at best: Berwick has the Priests who wish Jesus dead, led by a strong-voiced Steve Toub '01, demonstrate their depravity by smoking cigarettes (Judas is offered what appears to be a Marlboro Light when he chooses to join the dark side) and performing acts of homoeroticism during their suggestive dance breaks. The world of the Apostles is one of happiness, light, and heterosexuality; that of the priests is smoky, dark, and categorically...
...There has been a bit of puzzlement that people are somehow reading this as the death knell of women's education, when in fact there's been an extraordinary increase in the health of women's college," said Barnard Director of Public Affairs Lucas Held...
...herald of humanity's continuing plunder of the seas. Having devastated the cod population, Atlantic fishing boats are exhausting the haddock, herring and flounder. "How do you make people see that we are strip-mining the oceans?" Wheeler, once a commercial fisherman himself, asks, his voice edged with puzzlement. "I find myself depressed. Our relationship with the planet is terribly flawed...
Whether you fancy the convoluted lyrics or not, Into the Sun is definitely a solid debut. On his first headlining tour, however, Lennon is far from pleasing. He deserves the reactions of disgust and puzzlement that his live show evokes. The impressiveness of the record plummets so dramatically in the transition from studio to stage that you must question his intentions or point out his ignorance...
...Spielberg did give us Empire of the Sun, and Bertolucci made The Last Emperor. But these fall just a little short because they are movies from the inside out; they understand. The excitement of China comes from the puzzlement, from the head-scratching wonder of an outsider to whom China is a great blood-oiled machine with no rules...