Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that "nothing is certain but death and taxes," one can only wonder whether President Nixon thought he would live forever...
...able to drop babies in the field like peas from a pod, and return to the plow before the sun is high in the sky. Right now, being young, basically healthy, and female, I recognize the almost overwhelming potential of my body for conception. At this stage, however, I wonder whether the fertility I am burdened with must necessarily cloud every doctor's perceptions of my illnesses. I go to UHS when I think I have a sore throat, the flu, or an infection under a toenail of my left foot. According to the enlightened standards of UHS, none...
...generosity, after the audience had feebly said that it could dig the blues, he said "And believe me, we got dynamite comin' on after us." He was right. Springsteen explodes every rock type there is. It's not that he has his own completely new personal style, like Stevie Wonder for example. He is a borrower, and he takes other people's styles and explodes them, and picks up the pieces and puts them back together all mixed up like maybe they should have been all along. And he does not stop until all the potential within a song...
...night Special? I mean, there are breaks within breaks within breaks on this album. Even when all the music sounds like it is just good A.M. material, there is so much of it, and Springsteen's construction of his songs is so ambitious that one can only wonder at the poverty of everything else...
...Louis, Louis. I want to say that Judy Garland has sparkle, but that sounds paltry: the imagery of her life has always been more like a shooting star, burning out fast but brilliant. This movie lies at the zenith of her arc, anyway, and she's a wonder, starched and rosy-cheeked and singing Trolley Song with an energy that makes her creditable daughter Liza Minelli look like a radiator. The 1944 color in this Vincente Minelli (the same) period piece is gaudy, sumptuous and eerie-looking relative to the hushed or sheeny tones we're used...