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...cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with damaged goods peddled to the holiday crowds. Here and there one can find a pleasant or ambitious film, but none fills the Christmas stocking with delight. Moviegoers are advised to ask for a lump of coal...
...performer to serve full time as the company's co-ballet-master-in-chief with Jerome Robbins. Last week he made his emotional final New York appearance as the cavalier in the company's 1,000th performance of the Tchaikovsky classic. An added sprinkle of confected delight was supplied for the farewell by the premiere of Robbins, 65, in the nondancing role of the toymaker Drosselmeyer. For fans of the sugary fantasy, a treat nonpareil...
...that journalists care little about accuracy. When the Washington Post, New York Times and New York Daily News all discovered, during 1981 arid 1982, that they had printed stories that reporters had embellished or invented, much of the public took these extreme cases as typical of journalism and expressed delight that major news organizations had been humiliated...
...axioms of geometry is that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Sometimes, though, the parts can add up to more than the whole. To the delight of Wall Street, that is what seemed to be happening last week with American Telephone & Telegraph...
Roger Gould is unabashedly cynical about his lack of success at the typewriter and willingness to kill for what he wants. He glibly throws off lines as convoluted as the plot, to the delight of the audience and to the ill health of his wife who cringes when he offers to meet Anderson at the train station and "run you over." When forced to plot a second murder to cover up his first. Bruhl's terror is real as he starts down the path so many have found; that evil only leads to further evil...