Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of O'Neill's greatest plays--intricate, jarring and painfully honest. The play does not delight or entertain, but rather distresses the audience with an intimate look at the self-destructive network of O'Neill's own family...
...from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting is not so much the death of people or the destruction of machinery...
...called Johnson "the John McEnroe of skiing." Johnson was scarcely this bad; he didn't scream at officials, and was never anything but cheerful, even to the Austrians. In his self-delight, he gave the impression, walking quite alone, of a pair of young lovers strolling hand in hand...
...used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...
What makes the whole practice look entirely silly is the fact that it is the ostensibly "peace-minded" politicians who seem to draw the greatest delight out of pushing defense contracts for their local firms. The irony of a Kennedy or a Dodd getting worked up over who gets to build what weapon should be lost on no one who follows their liberal voting records closely...