Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't I throw you away," I said, realizing later that I was talking to a tube of chapstick. I felt like an idiot. And no wonder...
...field of their undergraduate work. Perhaps some of the passages in "West Side Story" were developed while Leonard Bernstein '39 was writing his thesis on "The Absorption of Race Elements into American Music". The conductor, pianist, composer and teacher penciled on the back of one of the pages, "I wonder what critics in 1975 will have to say on a young American composer...
...that, after all, is what our curiosity is all about. We know what Monroe was, but we wonder what she might have become. While Marilyn: Norma Jeane only perpetuates these useless questions, the answers it offers may help put them to rest...
While the Iran-contra scandal has virtually monopolized the attention of the American media since last November, Europeans tend to wonder what the fuss is all about. To a great many of them, the scandal seems like yet another perplexing case of American moralism run wild, a national exercise in self- flagellation. Many Europeans, who also never fully understood why Americans became so upset by the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, feel that such a crisis could never happen in their own countries. TIME's Paris bureau chief Jordan Bonfante examines the European bewilderment concerning Iranscam...
...Small wonder. Inspecting convention sites is the most popular perk in Democratic politics. Limousines pick up committee members at the airport. Sirens wailing, police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...