Word: wondrousness
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...last time anyone measured ("My doctor says I'm going to be 6 ft."); she doesn't wear heels much, and she wobbled a bit as she wandered around in a yellow strapless with a puff-sleeved jacket, waiting to be hung with jewelry. Wondrous astral bodies circulated about her; the ineffable Apollonia had got hold of some champagne, and showed up for work wearing red tights, a black tank top, a rough-trade belt, and Sony headphones over her ponytail. Iman, the gazelle-like Somalian, in silver pants and a noisy yellow top, joined her and they...
...epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering clarity. Said one scientist watching the incoming tide of images: "We have learned more about the Saturn system in the past week than in the entire span of recorded history...
...movie of extraordinary warmth and affection. Melvin and Howard is a neon Vermeer, a sensitive and funny look at the absurdities of late 20th-century American life in the far west. Demme looks at this amiable lug chased by a pot of gold not with condescension, but with wondrous incomprehension...
...tries to stop him, he fights her, and in the battle hits her in the stomach, killing the child in her womb. Realizing what he has done, for the first time Alekos cries out for forgiveness, saying that he has had enough suffering. She remembers "that mad monologue, sweet, wondrous, heart-rending, as the blows of the knife increased in number and intensity and remorse for not having told you before you silenced me, the remorse for not having realized that a child would have been the only rival for your fate...
Coach Joe Restic boasts a potent offensive threat outside the realm of the Multiflex--his defense. Besides Delgadillo's wondrous play, Crimson linebackers Bob Woolway and Mark Layden each snagged interceptions to bring Harvard's season total...