Word: wondrous
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Though I was born in Japan, these plastic kits and the ships they represented were among my first independently arrived-at impressions of that country. What kind of nation could produce these strange-looking ships? And then, just a few decades later, distribute these wondrous plastic replicas? It has stayed with me ever since as my internal, almost subconscious response to the notion that Japan is a copycat nation: no other country, before or since, ever made aircraft carriers that looked like the Akagi or Shokaku or Hiryu. At the same time, only Japan ever made toys as wondrously byzantine...
...enjoyed the serendipitous combination of an innate entrepreneurial streak, supportive parents and the blissful ignorance of youth. "What about thinking rationally through the chances of success?" he asks. "That didn't even occur to me." But it did occur to him at age 12 that the Internet was a wondrous thing. He discovered it at his friend Rupert's house and was so captivated that he stayed for three straight days. Only the promise of his own Net account lured him home...
...woman of great energy and compassion who brings her guitar and sings When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Abide with Me and other old favorites, and the other morning she got him to smile by singing When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Ramona is an angel...
...looked only at the subjects Suzan-Lori Parks has tackled--racism, homelessness, sexual hypocrisy--you might mistake her for a polemicist. Yet her dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and wondrous. Not one but two of her plays revolve around a character who makes a living as an arcade attraction playing Abraham Lincoln; patrons pay to impersonate John Wilkes Booth, grab a pistol and shoot him. (The image simply "burned itself into my mind," she explains.) Her spiky plays often take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek...
...ninth birthday came wrapped in silver spandex. The 5-ft.7-in. gift walked in on a red carpet, stripped off her floor-length black coat to reveal silver hip huggers and a matching tube top and sang, "I think I did it again/I made you believe..." And for a few wondrous moments, Rachel and her 10 girlfriends did believe that Britney Spears was in the house, lip-synching in front of the marble fireplace and rocking chair in Rachel's North Salem, N.Y., living room. On this recent Saturday, Shannon Connor, 21, an impersonator in hot demand at birthday parties throughout...