Word: wondrous
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...their part, the scientists couldn't be more pleased. "The images just blew us away," says Dijanna Figueroa, a grad student in marine biology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Nobody has ever seen deep-sea pictures as sharp as these. Among the wondrous creatures they spotted: a white octopus with earlike flaps known as a Dumbo octopus, an anglerfish with what look like primitive hands and a spindly 11-armed sea star. Some were previously unknown to science. "I came away asking new questions," says Figueroa. Viewers will come away in awe. --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported...
...other time too. Beside the sorrow of our frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...
...other time too. Beside the sorrow of our frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...
...director, Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), imagines dream escapes for Ramón, wondrous flights in which he soars through the skies while operatic arias play. On the other hand, the film, based on a true story, is always firmly grounded in reality. Ramón is tended by his brother's family and a local woman named Rosa (Lola Dueñas), who finds a focus for her messy life when she, too, falls in love with him. All of them keep reminding us that the big life-and-death questions this movie raises--and very sensibly answers--have human dimensions...
...future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous and terrifying possibilities, what, if anything, is real? Can it be that, as Ghost 2 suggests, "humans are nothing but the thread from which the dream of life is woven...