Word: delight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children take delight in things that grownups find gross? While most adults just sit and ponder this question, a few entrepreneurs cannily exploit it. Just in time for the back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic "tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner started IQCO Inc., which...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Many a summer theater tries Shakespeare's comic delight, but perhaps only the Open Door Theater, a troupe that moves from town to town trying to reacquaint the heartland with the live stage, has set it in a coal mine -- Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland, Pa., this week only...
...psychoanalyst and author of the recently published Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality, suggests that rape in movies is rooted in the Indian male's strong bond with his mother in childhood. Rape, Kakar argues, is a way of momentarily subjugating the all-powerful, suffocating mother figure; hence the male delight at seeing a woman in distress...
...25th book will probably follow the same course. Here Bradbury resurrects the place he knew as an entry-level scenarist. He calls it A Graveyard for Lunatics; the more familiar name is Hollywood. The narrator is hired to write a wide-scream horror movie. To his delight, he learns that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that...
Lest I assume the Cold War was completely over, I was happy to see that my quarterly letter from Radio Havana had arrived right on schedule. And, much to my delight, I still had the opportunity to win a trip to Havana...