Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing Poorly: The One-Draft Wonder...
Ralph: One can't start recriminations too early in a marriage. You know, Wanda, pushing back the frontier of the preposterous is arduous labor, and I often wonder why lawyers and sociologists have to shoulder so much of the burden...
...pleasure, just for the money or the hope of some, by miserable circumstances and for rotten money. Both of boxing's big camps -- those who like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend in a year what his investments earn in a year," says Leonard's attorney, Mike Trainer...
...wife Debby observed Houdini's birthday by paying Appleton a visit last spring. Performing Metamorphosis right in front of the sculpture, they made the switch in a dazzling third of a second. Sculptor Richard Wolter, who lives in Appleton, was thrilled. Says he: "Magic brings to life the wonder our age somehow has lost...
...such portraits, Van Gogh attained the grave humane fullness of his great model Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...