Word: astonishment
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...learned anything so far from the mess in the White House, it should be that it's against human nature to keep a secret, to bottle up that delicious piece of information that will astonish with its salaciousness or confound with its improbability. Monica Lewinsky blabbed on for hours to Linda Tripp. Tripp blabbed to Lucianne Goldberg. And so on, until the lawyers for Paula Jones and then the independent counsel got wind of this tale. Now we all know...
America is a society already so dedicated to free expression and emotional openness as to astonish the rest of a more reticent world. The last thing this steaming multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything cauldron of 260 million souls requires is yet more rawness in our national life...
...goodness in people. When a familiar person dies unexpectedly, our criticisms of that person suddenly look very petty in the face of what we are forced to summarize as the contributions of his or her life. Sometimes goodness comes out in a crisis, when the most unexpected people astonish us with unpredictable compassion. And sometimes, it shows at those moments when you happen to stumble into the deeper part of other people's lives--when they confess a secret love or ambition to you, or when you see a beautiful birthday card lying half-written on a desk, or when...
This scene, from Jean-Luc Godard's poignant, invigorating For Ever Mozart, lasts only a few seconds--yet it serves as a surreal image, a joke and a requiem. After 40 years, Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view: the 1995 For Ever Mozart and Contempt, his 1963 meditation on sex, lies and celluloid, newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation. So it's time to praise Godard for what he was and still...
...terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer of the past 30 years. In that trap, as this set proves, he found triumph." CINEMA: "After 40 years," writes Corliss, "Jean-Luc Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view: the 1995 'For Ever Mozart' and 'Contempt,' his 1963 meditation on sex, lies and celluloid." Both newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation, ' the releases "are worth seeing...