Was experiencing the rhythms of this wondrous land worth the nights of dank caves and hard floors?
It was exhilarating to experience it on a balmy night at Santa Fe's wondrous outdoor theater, with its vaulted roof, large stage and open-air sides offering spectacular mountain views and refreshing breezes instead of air-conditioning.
The film's most ecstatic sequence features the filmmaker and his crew, outdoors, at night, as a thunderstorm unleashes wondrous light amid total darkness.
– Allen Ginsberg Wrap me in your 20 bar concerto, o wondrous one, o being fuelled by musky nights and caffeine and nicotine and smoked lips.
The iconic movie of the era, "Saturday Night Fever," from 1977, is a wondrous paradox.
Yet in Kiarostami's canny view the political and the personal have an unintended aesthetic correlate: a wondrous, frightening sequence of a thunderstorm in darkest night is the result of government-planned power outages.
I watched her slice and chop and even julienne, and then, as we lay among the spatulas that night, she told me of a wondrous world outside of the Airbnb.
Our children excitedly embrace the story of an improbable Jewish military victory as a wondrous miracle; our five hanukkiot (menorahs) blaze each night against a window papered with homemade holiday decorations; we sing numerous Hanukkah songs in Hebrew and English; we spin the dreidel; and, yes, our children receive presents.
But the effect is mystical and wondrous; the statue really seems to "live" for a night.
