Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above the corpse's groin would be "messy with incisions," she appreciates his legs as "muscular and hard as a rock, although rigor mortis was probably more responsible than exercise." Much to her delight, "the penis [was] still intact." While topics such as necrophilia, bestiality, and sadomasochism may sound intriguing, the poorly written pieces in FTH suffer the same fate as other bad pornography, sacrificing eroticism to ludicrousness...
...dead or even seriously wounded. The animus of the plot--namely, hindering one's competition by underhanded means--is by no means extraordinary. In North America's other on-ice sport, certain players are retained specifically for this purpose, and these "enforcers" perform to the delight of the same crowds that are now so sanctimoniously clucking their tongues over the Harding-Kerrigan plot...
...retarded Arnie; and director Lasse Hallstrom (of "My Life as a Dog") deserves special recognition for his understated direction and unobtrusive choice of music. These characters are so real that we leave the theater expecting to see them on the street. Our perceptions are altered, and we delight in the fresh air and the hum of human voices...
...which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South Australia. But few readers will ever get to share his delight in $500 Montrachets that have long since vanished from the marketplace...
...wrote Miracle of the Rose and The Thief's Journal was no sunny gay poet like Walt Whitman. When he celebrated himself, it was a tangle of paradoxes he pointed to. His chief delight was his own abjection. His notion of Utopia was a cellblock of masters and servants, preferably locked in a bear hug. He left little record of how his novels, written mostly in prison, developed. Though White doesn't penetrate all Genet's mysteries -- such as how a foster child who spent much of his adolescence in a reformatory became one of the supreme stylists in French...