Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teenager should be awarded sheafs of Rimbaud for daring to transgress Miklavcic's and, I might add, the United States' repressive legislation by tasting the Dionysian delight that the ancients dared not withhold from their young. The herd instinct of this puritan university would have us agree with Miklavcic's judgements though most of us secretly empathize with the 16-year...
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power. Feminists will delight in seeing a romantic, frightened young woman take charge of her own (and her nation's) destiny. Historians will happily debate the sexy melodramatics with which the Protestant-Catholic conflict over the throne is stated. In short, this darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex movie ought to have many constituencies, even in the age of Ally McBeal. The largest of them may turn out to be moviegoers hungry for rich, old-fashioned historical spectacle and eager to revel...
...stare/But in this bar things were laissez faire") and the hilarious "Parties in the USA." He played "Girlfriend" and "Pablo Picasso" ("Well some people try to pick up girls/And get called assholes/This never happened to Pablo Picasso/Not like you"), both from the first Modern Lovers album (to the delight of the crowd), which sang so loud they nearly drowned out the sound of poor Jonathan. Richman loves to swing his hips in Elvis fashion and would often put down his guitar so he could sing and dance at the same time...
...paper was one of those that had merely met the expectations, and its good grade gave me no delight. Right now I'm thinking about going to see what that Dvorak keyboard is all about--and maybe checking out the circus...
...contrary--if there's no conspiracy, fine." Stone understands, moreover, that the average viewer of network news is a candidate for Geritol: "We want to do the same thing as 60 Minutes but in a new kind of way that makes it hip." In other words, his show could delight us with dark possibilities and then bore us with the truth. If so, it would be indistinguishable from, say, 20/20...