Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't I read about what the kids learned? And what about the staff, who have been meeting for months to plan this event? Please, write about the people, the contents of the show and why I should have gone. It's no wonder that the Crimson is laughed at on campus--it has mastered the art of elevating non-stories to the front page. --Stephanie M. Mayer...
...bulls, by the way, were fairly amusing, more in their physical appearance and gestures than in their would-be-funny speculations on reincarnation and the superiority of bulls to man. However, one couldn't help but wonder why the most prominent of them was played by a female (Gloria Bruce) and, still more mystifyingly, referred to, in character...
Although the present Biennial avoids making a synthetic statement, the exhibition provides a great excuse to display an assortment of excellent new art. Given the diversity of contemporary visual practice and the widely accepted premise that all curating is somehow biased, it's no wonder that co-curators Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri staunchly resist labeling their exhibition a "survey." Even though the show feels more like a survey than any of the recent Biennials, in their catalog essay Phillips and Neri write that they tried to avoid making a "sampler" and instead looked for certain "millenial tendencies...
...Greenspan is getting more respect than an IRS auditor. But you have to wonder why it took an interest-rate jolt and what is developing into the worst stock-market plunge in seven years for his misgivings to register. This is a horrible replay of 1994. You may not remember, but don't feel bad because nobody was listening then when Greenspan expressed similar concerns and, surprise, jacked interest rates higher. The market tanked, pronto. Greenspan doesn't control the markets, for sure. But his is the hand closest to the interest-rate lever, which gives him an awful...
...dumps. Or trying to survive in one. Soon enough the prisoners form a symphonic chorus, which sings wordless versions of great orchestral works. Even the more selfish and cynical prisoners--among them recent Academy Award winner Frances McDormand, rather miscast as a Viennese Jewish doctor--register awe and wonder at this feat...