Open since 1953, the restaurant makes wondrous corned beef, homemade pigs in blankets and increasingly rare round knishes.
The impossible scale of the VR sculpture makes the work wondrous; its diminished incarnation is, well, diminished.
Waves of gold make a wondrous backdrop for the starry clumps of blue and white.
"You could be breaking a genetic code or opening a long-lost pharaoh's tomb," Mr. Gillies wrote in a training guide for volunteers, "for the exhilaration you will feel when you make that wondrous discovery".
But Paul O'Neill made a wondrous running catch of Luis Polonia's fly ball near the fence in right-center field on a ball that would not stop carrying, saving the victory.
The strongest tales are those fueled by the verbal energy and magpie language that made "Brief Wondrous Life" so memorable and that capture Yunior's efforts to commute between two cultures, Dominican and American, while always remaining an outsider.
And like all translation, language is compromised and propelled and made more wondrous by its unreliability, its shifting nuances, its shadows and half-suggestions, all the gaps where we might find ourselves.
He also made the wondrous CinemaScope adventure film "Moonfleet" (1955), directed by Fritz Lang, and "Executive Suite" (1954), written by Ernest Lehman and directed by Robert Wise, one of the first movies to see the drama in big business.
Graphic designer and artist Stefan Sagmeister made a wondrous sales pitch for the sabbatical.
The self-taught, Yokosuka-based artist made a wondrous recreation of the structure entirely by hand to show his love of the film.
