Word: wondrousness
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...when you link a fantasy culture to the wondrous American inventory of guns, you may now and then get a little terrorist. Guns fire vicious daydreams into the actual. Squint and point, and one magic trigger-finger's twitch, the merest spasm of impulse, may send the world into mayhem. That is a power so seductive that it might even have a little Satan...
...week's end officials insisted that the danger of a meltdown was receding. Nevertheless, suspense as to the eventual outcome buttressed the claims of nuclear power's foes that all the wondrous fail-safe gadgets of modern technology had turned out to be just as fallible as the men who had designed and built them. Declared Nuclear Power Critic Ralph Nader: "This is the beginning of the end of nuclear power in this country...
...Space A psychiatrist's comfortable world is shaken when he encounters several patients with similar tales of alien visitation. Writer-director Tina Landau's wondrous production for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre is a magical mystery tour, packed with inventive sound and lighting effects, that explores cosmic questions of mankind's place in the universe while staying grounded in the spiritual quest of one vulnerable man, played marvelously by Tom Irwin...
When you first see Duke and hear her speak her opening line, "Oh my, it's fruitcake weather," your heart sinks. Old-age makeup and a Southern accent--this means for sure that we're in for a wondrous, lovable eccentric. Fruitcake weather, indeed. Duke does play Sook with flibbertigibbet mugging and a sort of clown walk, but you see why this lonely, sensitive boy loves her, and by the time they have to part, you are almost as tearful as they both are. What is most admirable about A Christmas Memory is that the battle between responsibility and emotion...
...story screeches to a halt, the characters are silenced, and flubber performs the mambo. Pulsating to Danny Elfman's spectacular score, the dozens of energetic lumps of goo twist and turn around the room. They organize themselves in pairs, in kick lines, in symmetric circles. It's hilarious and wondrous to behold. The dazzling scene is a classic one--it almost makes the whole movie worthwhile...