Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders kept vanishing, leaving behind them a kind of iridescent afterimage upon the retina, and a sense of wonder...
...when the daily Parade of Dreams Come True culminates in a refrain of "Tokyo Disneyland is your land . . . ," the line makes sense in more ways than one. Here, after all, is a flawlessly clean, high-tech, perfectionist model of the flawlessly clean, high-tech, perfectionist society. Small wonder, perhaps, that a couple of years ago, when a group of Japanese were asked what had given them the most happiness in life, more than half mentioned not marriage or family, nor work or religion or love, but simply, and inevitably, Disneyland...
...rioted at the debut of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring were no more sophisticated than today's listeners. It is simply that no one told them they were listening to classical music. What they experienced was not the passive appreciation of a dead art but love and wonder at its terrible, living beauty...
...Dragnet) and a devil comedy (The Witches of Eastwick) and an oddly amoral Michael J. Fox comedy (The Secret of My Success -- sort of Wall Street for the Smurf set). But all these films traded in physical or emotional degradation; they left an acrid aftertaste. One began to wonder how long Hollywood could continue to cash in on its own and the nation's cynicism...
...could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager can't play a guy unless that particular guy's supposed to be playing that particular game, that particular inning, that particular situation. Besides, if all the people who supported me for 25 seasons came...