Word: splendor
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...only regarding difficulty, but also the requisite complaints of the students about their workload. Only, one must be slightly more inventive in a different language. So, my first week in Beijing wasn’t the usual rush of the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and the touristy splendor of the Palace Museum. It was mostly my textbook and me holed up in a dull hotel room. Barred from English, the language of home, I dreamed of such a place itself. I’ve never been so far away, I kept thinking; I’ve never been...
...production is certainly a sumptuous confection. Given access to the grounds and interiors of Versailles, Coppola captures the splendor of aristocratic excess, aided artfully by the work of production designer KK Barrett and costume designer Milena Canonero. The quiet riot of pastels and ruffles hint at Marie's isolation from the shouts of revolution in the Paris streets. Dunst is a living porcelain doll, dimpled and sweet. Her Marie may be ignorant of the great roiling world outside, but her job was not to be spokeswoman for the masses. It was to provide a male heir for the throne...
...format war reminiscent of Betamax vs. VHS, in which the biggest losers were the manufacturers of the defeated format (in that case, Sony) and the consumers who bought the wrong machines. If you have an HDTV and you're dying to watch movies in their full HD splendor, the Toshiba box isn't a bad idea. If you're a game player, you will probably want to hold out for the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox HD DVD drive. If you're the cautious type, you may want to wait for the dust to settle--and the prices to come...
...second had to do with the martyrdom?s sequel. In a breathtaking gesture, several of the dead men?s widows befriended and lived among the Waodani, and the tribe eventually converted to Christianity. One of the wives, Elisabeth Elliot, wrote about it eloquently in ?Through Gates of Splendor, ? which became a Christian classic. In combination, says Jonathan Bonk, director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center, the event, the event, coverage and aftermath ?absolutely galvanized? a generation of young evangelicals. LIFE continued to revisit the story for years...
...Perry is indicative of the story?s ongoing power and the current film?s success in tapping it. The former executive administrator, now a full-time mother, first read ?Through Gates of Splendor? in her early 20s in the 1980s, a quarter-century after the action it described. She doesn?t remember how she got hold of it, but does recall that it was already ?dog-eared? by the time she received it. ?I was looking for heroes,? she says, ?And I was inspired that somebody cared so much about their faith that they would...