Word: wonders
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...human creativity is simply beyond our comprehension? When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery; if science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone. Nathaniel M. Campbell Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts...
What may really hurt these sequels, however, is that they are simply machines, designed to replicate themselves forever. None are organic, like The Lord of the Rings and the first two Godfather films, in which a complex story unfolded in lavish detail and made audiences gasp in fear and wonder...
...Baathists and take down militias that many Shi'ites see as vital to their defense against Sunni insurgents. At the very moment the U.S. needs greater cooperation from the government, Prime Minister Maliki needs to show his independence from Washington, where doubts about his usefulness are no secret. No wonder he no longer wants...
...wonder I ached to hear the great man was stepping down. We are unlikely to see Warne's kind again. He is a phenomenon, unique, and it seems natural to recognize the fact that his passing will leave cricket fans the poorer. But it's more than just that. We love our greatest athletes because they remind us of what we are not: artful, instinctive, faultless. In their most sublime moments - think a Nadia Comaneci routine, a Michael Jordan leap, a Tiger Woods swing, a Zinédene Zidane pass - sportsmen and women seem to channel the divine, so perfect...
...Warne epitomizes this sad fact better than most. His off-field antics sometimes seem lifted from a soap opera script: fined for giving a bookmaker information about "weather conditions"; suspended for using a banned drug that can mask steroid use; divorced after a series of lurid extramarital affairs. Little wonder that Warne's early teammates nicknamed him Hollywood. He is, noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck recently, "an unusual blend of immaturity and insight...