Word: wondrous
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...indeed a kind of proto-Hamlet, putting on a show and maintaining a measure of inner detachment Quite consistently, he retrains from displaying as much love for Falstaff as Falstaff shows to him. And Sarandon's facial expression on finding the "dead" Falstaff alive after all is absolutely wondrous...
Preserving that wondrous mayhem may be asking too much. The two covers on Still Life are fine, funky cuts powered by the Charlie Watts-Bill Wyman rhythm machine. Jagger reminds all of his still startling ability to transform black R & B and white honk into the Stones' own unique grinding sound...
...argument but a ramble over the terrain, and this essay's apparent meandering belies its thoughtfulness. Jumping adroitly from a concern that old male heroes may soon lapse from memory to a thankfulness that barriers to equal treatment under the law are falling to a meditation on the wondrous attraction of the sexes. Hoagland appears an artful stone-stepper in the twins streams of technology and women's liberation. He muses. "Technology is more leveling than feminism; as is the density in which we live, and our fat standard of living, combined with its recent shrinkage. (That...
...Peace Corps. Paul Theroux, too, has styled himself in the mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...
...dominant impression from the visit was Brezhnev's insecurity about his forthcoming U.S. trip. Whatever Brezhnev's systems analysts might tell him of Moscow's emerging military parity, to him America seemed to be a land of superior technology and wondrous capacity, a country of marvelous efficiency compared to the cumbersome Soviet colossus. Brezhnev endlessly sought reassurance that he would be courteously received in America. I was touched by this insecurity...