Word: wondrousness
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...amongst us, Punjabi offers a wide variety of options. Most include some sort of cheese and a vegetable, such as the Saag Paneer ($4.95), a mouth-watering spinach, cheese, and cream combination. If you are looking for a real Indian specialty, try the Chole Masalewala ($4.95) to experience the wondrous combination of chickpeas, tomatoes, and spices...
...suspending disbelief, perhaps because Haley keeps us grounded in reality, even when the film takes its preposterous twists and turns. Newcomer Ellen Page—who will appear in this summer’s blockbuster-to-be “X3”—is simply wondrous to behold and matches Wilson blow for blow. With her tomboy haircut and all-around infantile figure (she was 15 at the time the film was shot), it’s hard to believe how mature she had to be to take on such a layered and surprisingly savvy character. Wilson...
This is one abiding irony of progress. The most wondrous technology exists that can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor, thread a tiny catheter up into the brain to open a clogged artery, pulverize a kidney stone without breaking the skin. But the simple stuff--like getting an MRI on time, being given the right drugs at the right time, making sure everyone knows which side of your brain to operate on--can cause the biggest problems. "A patient with anything but the simplest needs is traversing a very complicated system across many handoffs and locations and players," says...
...games, the Connors-McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word going...
...Walinsky said many years after his Kennedy apprenticeship, "has ruined every single thing it has touched." There was some puckishness to this-he was talking about professional basketball, if I remember correctly-but Walinsky is a serious man and he wasn't really joking. Yes, television has been a wondrous thing. Vast numbers of people now watch presidential debates, State of the Union messages, prime-time press conferences, not to mention terrorist attacks, hurricanes and wars in real time. But television also set off a chain reaction that transformed the very nature of politics. "This is the beginning...