Word: wondrous
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...surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
Also, civic reputations have a long half-life. Chicago has had wondrous architecture for years, but it is still identified with Mob wars and the sort of political machine that urges its followers to vote early and often. If Dan Rostenkowski happened to be from Cleveland, would commentators on his fall have said that he couldn't shake the Cleveland way of doing things...
...images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all-intuitively. His body, honed by vaudeville pratfalls, was a splendid contraption. And as a director, Keaton was born fully mature. He was just 25 then, and as eager to mine the potential for film-flammery as he was to design the wondrous gizmos that make his movies one big notions shop. His ingenuity was utterly American; he had a tinkerer's obsession to learn how things work and how he could make them work to comic effect. This was Keaton's world: everything goes wrong; everything moves perfectly...
Repression, as everyone knows, makes for bad sex. But it does wonders for romance, obliging the yearning heart to make wondrous imaginative leaps mostly unduplicatable when you're tangled in the reality of rumpled sheets. It follows, therefore, that Ireland in the 1950s, a place where condoms were illegal and priests braying the glories of continence were everywhere, was probably the world capital of romance...
...became appropriately subdued and careful throughout the delicate contours of the Larghetto. His conducting finally matched the group's intensity. In the Finale, Metamorphosen exercised a wondrous dynamic range with flawless control. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the tempi; the most glaring discrepancy occurred as the group handily beat Yoo to the recapitulation of the first movement's main theme...