Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Algonquin -maintains: "I look at McPhee's profile as a beautifully written literary piece, constructed on facts but still a literary piece." He has "no regrets." Nor does John McPhee. "The only reaction I might have," he says, "would be to the shocks we caused, and wonder over the results...
...brains but good, patient instincts. The problem lies in story development. There is something dreadfully predictable about the way the tale moves. When Norma Rae finally causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film makers to reach this big scene. It is the same with other sequences: company goons on the attack, the death of Norma Rae's father from overwork. There is an awful familiarity here and in Martin Ritt's conventional staging...
...site in neighboring Nevada. When a pinkish-red cloud drifted over St. George hours later, the parents were not frightened; after all, the Atomic Energy Commission had assured them that "there is no danger" from radioactive fallout. Some parents even held Geiger counters on their children and exclaimed in wonder as the needles jumped...
Those years taught Blumenthal a technique that he used whenever he had to face powerful people after he arrived in San Francisco in 1947 with $60 in his pocket. Said he: "I'd look at them and wonder how they'd survive in Shanghai if you took away their fancy offices and chauffeurs and the trappings of power." The tactic never failed, and Blumenthal never lacked self-confidence...
...mean, wow, it is really so demoralizing," another woman added. "I read a list somewhere three feet long of people who owed over $5,000 in taxes. The thing has just pervaded the whole structure," she said, adding "It's a wonder anyone in the political arena can keep their integrity...