Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucci, though, badly wants to be mayor--he declared his candidacy even before the vote count was finished in the November election, and he has since broken with the CCA on some housing votes to the delight of the Independents...
Anyone could read him at a glance. When things were going well, when it seemed for a while that the movement he led would brighten and liberate the lives of his fellow Poles, the face that grew so familiar in 1981 radiated delight: delight in his crusade, delight in his vision of the future, delight in being at the center of it all. In those moments, he held nothing back. But when things began to go wrong, when the tensions started to rise and the future he saw began to recede, the face grew heavy. The familiar walrus mustache sagged...
...time goes by, the context keeps changing. That is why, as each new generation of designers must learn, even the best design does not seem to bring us closer to Utopia. But, as Sir Henry Wotton observed some 350 years ago, the best design gives us "commodity, firmness and delight...
Holliday is more than a delight. She has devastating vocal firepower and a stage presence that could crumble reinforced concrete. While the show was out of town, she and Bennett got into an "I quit" - "You're fired" imbroglio that had her out of Dreamgirls until the pair made up. Near the end of Act I, Effie's lover (Ben Harney), who is the cynical manager of the trio, replaces her with a slim looker who possesses the svelte image he feels that the Dreams need to captivate white audiences. He has also taken a new bedmate. Partly...
...quite. Horowitz runs a lively, sometimes hectoring weekly half hour of consumer advocacy out of Los Angeles' KNBC, which is syndicated to 36 stations and takes a special delight in giving TV commercials the hotfoot. There are other raisers of consumer consciousness who are just as solid-NBC's Betty Furness, or 20/20's John Stossel-but none can quite match Horowitz's zealous show-biz savvy. Looking a little like the recording secretary of the Beverly Hills Jaycees, Horowitz gets cozy with his studio audience. He answers their questions; he invites them up at show...