Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mighty Chicago Bulls have a 500 record. Software giant Microsoft is battling antitrust suits brought by the U.S. government. And once-dominant children's entertainer Barney is now the subject of innumerable vicious parodies, with whole Web sites devoted to his gory demise. These three unrelated things delight us in similar ways. In each case, someone or something that was staggeringly successful for a long period of time has undergone a fall from grace...
...name of the game is irony and near-misses, as Murray steps into a traditional Russian dance at a diplomatic function, tossing about explosive nesting dolls, and flailing about to the music in true Murray style, much to the delight of the audience in the film, and in the theater...
...Stereolab's charisma did not lay claim to the reverence garnered from their fans, the power must have partially come from the sounds emanating from the group's cache of analog relics and digital gadgets barricading their stage. Undoubtedly, more than just francophiles delight in Sadier's irresistible French lyrics and Marxist banter. Backed in part by Australian-born Mary Hansen, Sadier's voice wafted ethereally between the electronic imagery...
Jaws drop in shock as Morris begins paying romantic attentions to Catherine. Both of Catherine's aunts, Lavinia and Elizabeth (Sheila Ferrini), delight in her unexpected good fortune. Dr. Sloper is predictably skeptical, for two specific reasons. One, he cannot fathom that anyone would be interested in "such a dull girl." More to the point, he has not forgotten that Catherine does have one obviously pleasing attribute: an annual inheritance of $30,000. As the program helpfully imparts, Catherine's annuity compares to about half a million Big Ones...
...transformation is convincing--and Plum largely carries it off--one hates to see the work as a whole adopt the values of its own object of scorn. Simply in retitling the work The Heiress, the Goetzes define Catherine's character through her financial prospects. Nor do we delight in witnessing Catherine exchange her youthful naivete for such a bitter, scaly adulthood. This sour apple doesn't fall far from Dr. Sloper's withered tree...