Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy's generation orchestrated the death rituals. Now the old Senator was going to let Caroline, a member of the new generation, take charge. There were terrible decisions to be made, but not before Uncle Ted shot baskets with Caroline's kids until they could be heard squealing with delight behind the hedge...
...British call them), searched the student listings at the University of London, and surfed through every accommodations Web site I could find. As a last resort, I even tried sending out a request through the inter-office email classifieds ("URGENT: summer intern seeks housing"). To my surprise and delight, a fellow employee responded to my email, offering a lovely room just within my price range. I made an appointment to see the room the next day. That morning, I woke up with a pounding headache and a queasy stomach. No, it was not the result of a glorious night...
Luckily a situation availed itself early on. Struggling to haul a load of boxes upstairs, I was confronted with a door that wouldn't stay open long enough to pull my hand truck through, and, to my delight, a handsome young man willing to hold it open. I graciously thanked him and smiled coyly like I imagined a sorority girl would do. We rode the elevator upstairs together...
Luckily a situation availed itself early on. Struggling to haul a load of boxes upstairs, I was confronted with a door that wouldn't stay open long enough to pull my hand truck through, and, to my delight, a handsome young man willing to hold it open. I graciously thanked him and smiled coyly like I imagined a sorority girl would do. We rode the elevator upstairs together...
Marilyn's tabloid appeal is infinite but ultimately beside the point. Whatever destroyed her--be it Hollywood economics or rabid sexism or her own tormented psyche--pales beside the delight she continues to provide. At her peak, Marilyn was very much like Coca-Cola or Levi's--she was something wonderfully and irrepressibly American...