Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henri Rousseau show at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (through June 4) alters one's view of his work, as retrospectives are meant to--but downward. It is, however, a delight to visit. One could write a little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau...
...fall in the dollar would delight many American businessmen. Its rise has made their products more expensive abroad and foreign goods cheaper in the U.S. That has hurt every company that exports or competes with imports. Largely because of the strong dollar, the U.S. ran a record-shattering $123 billion trade deficit last year, up from $69 billion in 1983. The trade gap widened to $10.3 billion in January from $8 billion in December. Such a huge imbalance is unsustainable, TIME's economists agreed, and could eventually undermine U.S. growth...
Pickens pursues health with the same single-mindedness that he brings to chasing wealth. The $2 million T. Boone Pickens Fitness Center at Mesa headquarters is an exercise buff's delight. In addition to four glass-walled racquetball courts, it offers a gym, indoor running track, a weight room and marbled showers and whirlpool. Pickens works out daily when he is in Amarillo, and his name is usually at the top of the center's racquetball tournament ladder. His prowess is on sculptured display outside the courts in the form of a life-size bronze statue that portrays a crouching...
Drunk with Delight...
Although some of Marceau's less famous selections can be confusing, his classics may make the show worthwhile. "The Mask Maker" is a delight: Marceau first carves masks, then tries two of them on alternately, frantically switching his demeanor from one of vapid joy to one of scowling horror. The joy mask gets stuck on his head. Another successful number is "The Angel," in which Marceau portrays an angel who periodically visits earth. Just when he is in the throes of embrace or of drink, heavenly music and light surround him to remind him to behave properly...