Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rhythm on painted drums. After the marriage feast, the couple walk in the countryside. She gathers the train of her bridal dress with one hand; the other is intertwined in his. "If only we didn't have to go back," he says. She looks up, all fresh anticipation. "I wonder what our life will be like?" she asks. Then: "I know one thing. Life with you is life without...
Each museum visitor gets an emergency pack of 20 exclamation points at the door, just to keep his or her spirits up. No wonder the place is as full as a dry-county barbecue on Saturday night. If you want to really pig out on cultural gorging and glut without risking any hangover of thought, then Red Grooms, good ole boy extraordinaire, will...
...rank with Robert Crumb or Ralph Steadman, let alone Daumier. Twenty years later, even these small fangs are gone. His work gums its subjects, rolls on its back and waggles its paws in its demotic eagerness to be liked. If this is the Whitney's notion of satire, no wonder it shelved its plans for a Keinholz installation last year...
Once upon a time . . . that fairy-tale phrase glistened with wonder luster. Children's imaginations were sparked by fantasy literature that placed all adventure -- fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles -- in the past tense. "Thrilling days of yesteryear!" "A long time ago in a galaxy . . . " Locating these tales in the world's own childhood taught children their roles in the continuing drama of the human family. It also carried a cautionary moral: things were better then, more exciting and romantic, than they could ever be now. Youth is a prince who dreams that anything...
...Washington Post tallied the number of days in August that she combined Transportation Department travel , with campaign stops in key primary states. (The Government and the campaign split the costs of the trips.) She disputes the figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with a disarming smile...