Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WONDER YEARS (ABC) The nostalgia is ladled on a bit thick, but this wry, affectionate comedy about a twelve-year-old's angst in the late '60s has wit and insight -- and the most believable family scenes...
...advance of technology has never destroyed man's wonder and awe at the beauty of the earth. The coming of England's Industrial Revolution, with its "dark Satanic mills," coincided with the extraordinary flowering of Romantic poetry, much of it about the glory of nature. Many people in this century voiced the same tender feelings on seeing the first images of the earth as viewed from the moon. The sight of that shimmering, luminescent ball set against the black void inspired even normally prosaic astronauts to flights of eloquence. Edgar Mitchell, who flew to the moon aboard Apollo...
...hide its official name -- the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir -- but the copy on the label and jacket doesn't exactly brag about it either. Le Mystere is so much more mellifluous and -- no getting around it -- mysterious. Just like the music itself, in fact. The wonder of both Le Mystere excursions is provided by the range of the voices and the surprise of the melodies. The music sounds African, Middle European and otherworldly, like a collision around a sharp mountain turn between Peter Gabriel's score for The Last Temptation of Christ and Carl Orff...
Bostonians indifferent to the boring New England Patriots and their dwarf-like back-up quarterback probably wonder why I've been loyal to a pro football team. I admit it. The NFL is pointless, slow and cruel. But the Redskins, somehow, are different...
Harvard claims to be above the messy business of making money, but did you ever wonder just how moral a university can be? Not only did Harvard devote endowment funds to an ethically questionable, not to mention financially risky, hostile takeover for no other purpose than to quickly turn a profit, but they did it over a company in which they were a major shareholder. This same company, RJR-Nabisco, has not only received harsh criticism and censure for agressive and unethical business practices in many Asian and Third World nations but is also the fourth largest investor...