Word: delight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made an interesting TV sit-com: the wacky misadventures of a loving and long-suffering nightclub owner and his zany wife, the star of the club's act. The twist, of course, was that husband and wife were both male, the wife a flamboyant transvestite. Still, Edouard Molinaro directed the film with a light touch, making Renato and Albin just another daffy couple who had a way of getting themselves into embarrassing situations. La Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean...
Klaussen had a setback two weeks ago when he fell in both races at the Eastern Championships at Middlebury. He was foiled by what should have been a Western skier's delight; more than a foot of soft, new snow that was soon gouged into thigh-deep ruts by the racers...
Genus jelly bean is a descendant of Turkish delight, a gelatinous confection dating from biblical times, and a French technique called panning, in which the soft centers are hard-coated with syrup and sugar; the process takes up to two weeks. Goelitz plants in California and Chicago are now on six-day weeks; new orders take two months or more. Unless you drop in at the Oval Office...
Many pictures in After Daguerre, however, convey a sense of joy in the world, a delight in vision as if it were some magic new gift, which painting had lost and would not acquire again until the triumph of impressionism. In a picture labeled simply The Hound "Balliveau," no pains have been taken with composition. The subject is tied to a barn wall. To see the picture, though, is to brood on the look of this ungainly dog as if a new species had just been invented. And in the best landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, one can almost...
...particular night when the Kroks recorded their latest album last spring, one version of the retrain sent the packed Sanders Theater crowd into paroxysms of delight, the longest and loudest laugh of the night. Their tuxedoed frames neatly outlined against the rich wood paneling, they sang "In Tommy's Lunch, Eurofags Do It," and the place went wild...