Word: awestruck
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Some WHRB DJs got more than strikes when they went bowling last Thursday. Jeff Mangum—the lead singer of now-defunct indie pop legends Neutral Milk Hotel—decided to break his five-year hiatus from performing in public to whip out his guitar for the awestruck WHRBies, transporting them out of the neon glare of Lanes and Games into Holland, 1945…A certain Fly member decided to take his post-spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead...
...joined the tour in the Bay Area last month, more than 1,200 people waited in line for up to three hours to see her. I heard half a dozen young women tell De Laurentiis they had enrolled in culinary school because of her. One young man was so awestruck that he blurted that De Laurentiis should leave her husband for him (which was all the more awkward since the husband in question, 42-year-old clothing designer Todd Thompson, was standing nearby...
Bakr, a veteran of dozens of battles against U.S. troops, says he was instantly awestruck. "I could not feel my tongue, my hands, my legs ... I could not move," he says, his eyes widening at the very memory. "For a few moments I could not even think. My mind went completely blank." Bakr says al-Zarqawi led him into another room, with prayer mats and copies of the Koran. "Come, let us pray," al-Zarqawi said. Bakr says they prayed for about three hours, with al-Zarqawi reciting from memory several long surahs, or chapters from the Koran...
...worked flexible jobs in Montreal--waiting tables, delivering furniture--to fund trips around the world. He visited Indonesia and Peru, and went to Africa a couple of times. (His parents are South African.) He became intrigued by what he terms the "predictable cycle" of traveling: being awestruck, comparing places with one another, getting homesick...
...colleagues answer the phone, "Turen," it sounds like they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could barely speak Mandarin and was awestruck by the straightness of the city's poplar-lined roads. This "farmerist outlook," as Yu describes his own first impressions of Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel...