Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes of the New Testament, Scorsese wants to restore the immediacy of that time, the stern wonder of that land, the thrilling threat of meeting the Messiah on the mean streets of Jerusalem...
...more and more so does dancing, and twelve years after Louganis won his first of three Olympic medals, mortal divers are overtaking him at last (or catching up at least). Watching Louganis in practice wear out the lift to the platform, outstaying the others by hours, makes one wonder how hard he must have toiled before eminence and elevators...
...music's glowing promise of redemption by love, no one seems to have learned a thing: only two innocent children make their way, hand in hand, out of the carnage. A forgetful human race ensures that, in Kupfer's moral universe, history repeats itself exclusively as tragedy. No wonder the audience booed. But never mind. In a couple of years, when they are accustomed to it, they will be cheering...
...billion) and Merrill Lynch ($55 billion) combined. Nomura's 1987 profits ($2 billion) were almost four times those of American Express. And as Japan converts manufacturing muscle into financial might, the securities giant has passed Toyota (1987 earnings: $1.7 billion) to become the country's most profitable company. No wonder Nomura sparks respect in its competitors, inspires hard work and ambition among its 12,000 employees, and commands the loyalty of its 5 million customers...
...kids," says Katie Humes, who takes care of the children at day care. "Imagine if we adults had to constantly be trying to get along with that many people. And then some parents come expecting to take their kid to gymnastics or some other lesson. And they wonder why the child is crying. It can all be too much...