Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, the film's beginnings were astonish ingly humble: Brandon Stoddard saw The China Syndrome and wondered what the home-front consequences of nuclear war would be. When Nicholas Meyer met Ja son Robards on an airplane and offered him the lead role of a humanistic surgeon, Robards accepted with elegant simplicity. "It beats signing petitions," he said. Now that The Day After has been temporarily positioned right at the center of the nuclear debate, there is no more room for humility or modesty. The finished film was premiered last week in Lawrence, Kans., where much...
According to Trevor-Roper, nearly half the paintings and drawings by Hitler have been destroyed. Among the 400 that were aboard the ill-fated Luftwaffe transport are many sketches of Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, including some nude drawings. The other finds, Trevor-Roper says, will astonish historians, and standard accounts of Hitler's writing habits, personality and even some public events may have to be revised. They include whole volumes written by Hitler on Jesus Christ, Frederick the Great and himself, as well as a third volume of Mein Kampf. Writes Trevor-Roper: "It is the other...
Standing before Van Dyck's work, as a patron wrote to him, one felt "the Luck to be astonish'd in the righte Place." The current exhibition of Van Dyck's English portraits, organized by Art Historian Oliver Millar at the National Portrait Gallery in London, shows how well Van Dyck's fluency has lasted. It is a delectable exhibition, though cramped and clumsily installed, and it makes one realize how far the tradition of formal portraiture has declined since the days when Van Dyck epitomized...
...last in their divisions, and only Turner was trying to escape on the back of an ostrich. Since that ignominious year, the Braves have risen to first in the National League's Western Division, and Turner no longer threatens to manage. But in a way that tends to astonish all of the people some of the time, and infuriate some of the people all of the time, he continues to be an utterly original American sportsman. His sacrilege as a team owner is to regard professional sports as if they were games. He has said, in fact, that life...
...take care of this monarch as well, especially since her protectors last week seemed astonish ingly inept at doing so. In an incident that London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...