Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Curiously enough, though, the movie waits almost an hour-and-a-half before the thick of the bug battles begin. Audiences might wonder during this time: if they're not watching bugs eat people and they're not watching social commentary, what are they watching...
...Mike DeCleene '97 and audio work of Leeore Schnairsohn '98 is remarkably rare. Consider, for example, how Kathryn Walker's recent staging of The Bacchae in the Agassiz smothered its actors in an admittedly dazzling weave of colors, echoes and choreography. Kushner's whole point, in fact, is that wonder and magic are essentially human phenomena; not wrought upon his characters but arising from them, pouring out or passing through...
Beneath the hubris of policymakers and moneymen, though, some quietly wonder if there isn't more going on. Maybe the barking dog really was trying to alert us to budding economic troubles before it was summarily dispatched to the pound. "It's always wise to take the message of the market seriously," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at the brokerage firm First Albany. "The message is that the currency crisis in Southeast Asia will affect not only the economies of Southeast Asia but also that...
...fast, too soon anyway," he says. "This is, as they say, a healthy correction." With any luck, Stone and the rest of the faithful have it right. One day, though, there will come a dip that is not a buying opportunity--and you have to at least wonder if that's what the market was barking about last Monday...
...people." "The problem is they haven't made any room for intimacy," she says. Meanwhile her sister, an infertility specialist, gasped at the number of anguished 40-year-old women coming in, trying to have children. "That was the life I had embarked upon. But then I began to wonder: You hit your target zone with your personal trainer, have great suits and eat a lot of sushi. What does it mean...