Word: wonderful
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...Gardner's organization is baffling, at least his style is endearing. The sense of mythic wonder that fills his books Grendel and Jason and Medea is present here in the form of vignettes and metaphors; and even when he rattles on about the good and the true, Gardner never pontificates, never becomes self-righteous. Even when what he says sounds like it would suit a preacher among the unbaptized, his manner remains that of the elderly raconteur, sitting by the fire with a mug of ale and a pipe...
...everything right as Walter Burns; it must have been a great surprise to see him work in this sort of part after the more submissive work he'd been used to. Rosalind Russell talks like a robot with too many "D" batteries in her--and she's a wonder...
...violating the anti-apartheid arms ban, the $510,000 would have wound up in the federal treasury. Do the people of New Haven have any more right to the money, asked some observers, than U.S. taxpayers? To University of Southern California Law Professor Christopher Stone, it is no wonder that Olin is "enthusiastic" about Zampano's punishment: a charitable contribution may be tax deductible, while a fine is not. Moreover, he says, a "charitable contribution gives the company good-will footage. It's a perfect option for the company...
...listen to two hours of speeches Saturday afternoon, and you wonder if the rally isn't going on just a little too long. But when it's over, you have the sense that somehow, this demonstration was a little different, just a little better than you'd bargained for. You want to believe in this movement. But you know how touchy The System is about acknowledging its more painful economic realities. Speakers at the rally hinted that perhaps the government prefers that its economically ailing whites misdirect their anger at minorities, rather than direct it at the government. The racism...
...have to wonder if yesterday's ninth-inning 5-4 loss to Tufts by the batsmen was some sort of comic tragedy. It wasn't. It was more like Theatre of the Absurd...