Word: wondrously
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...Mostly they escape through song, and it?s wondrous to see and hear the over-familiar melodies and lyrics in context again. ?Some Enchanted Evening?, which always struck me as the stodgiest of the big R&H love ballads, becomes an affecting, shape-shifting reflection of the show?s emotional movement, from the joy of love-at-first-sight to the rueful foreshadowing of love lost. Even the seemingly simple lyrics of ?A Wonderful Guy? glide from ironic detachment to full-throated romanticism with deceptive wit and charm...
...magazine.] Should Win Shouldn't Win No Country for Old Men A finely twisted horror-crime-western film that moves beyond genre There Will Be Blood Geysers of hype fuel this oilman epic. But psychologically, it's a big, dry well Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd He's fierce, wondrous, haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose Her Edith Piaf...
...song’s lyrics. These include “Can I have some of your cookies / Can I have some of your pie / May I cut the first slice / So won’t you scream?” This argument, however, doesn’t embrace the wondrous stupidity of this video. Let us not damn director Justin Francis for being wholly uncreative, or for managing to fetishize perhaps the only thing that has yet to be fetishized in rap videos: ski masks. Let us simply throw our hands up, exhale, and embrace Timbaland for the steroidal...
...just ahead of Collins, but a government official who knew both men, hoping to quiet the feuding, brokered a truce between the groups, which included the sweetener of a joint announcement at the White House in 2000. President Bill Clinton lauded the completed genome as "the most important, most wondrous map ever produced...
...shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow in the center of the cover, leaving little room for the actual title of the book. Over-compensating for something, Doris? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz Nothing says “good, interesting read” like the red silhouette of a man’s head with a bird’s wing emerging from the back, red ink dripping eerily from its base. If Wao?...