Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of mating sitcom material with a surrealist style seems, at first glance, to have about as much promise of permanent delight as a pickup in a singles bar. And by the end of The Lonely Guy, even the film's best friends may feel that some aesthetic counseling is in order. Yet for a movie that once again takes up a matter made achingly familiar by contemporary song and story - the hardships and confusions of the single life - it offers some curiously arresting visions: the rooftops of New York City crowded with men howling the names of women...
...Wall Street, investors greeted last week's Texaco and Royal Dutch offers with delight. Shell Oil stock jumped 9½ points a share in one day, to 53½, on news of the Royal Dutch bid, while Getty climbed 3¼, to 120. The excitement quickly spread through other energy stocks, sparking a rally among the issues...
...three P's of Raiders football," according to Matt Millen, their analytical linebacker, "are pointing, pushing and penalties." Yet, remembering the Raiders' visit to Washington 14 weeks ago, Redskins Receiver Art Monk cannot contain his delight. "Pushing, shoving and fighting," says Monk with a sigh. "That was the most fun I ever had in a game." Washington won, 37-35, but everyone involved looked forward to another day, and here it is. Next Sunday the XVIIIth greatest spectacle created by man will break fresh ground in Tampa...
...menace to man's existence . . . But Congress has now mandated that each person who would slay the wolf must stay his hand. An increased "war on wolves" in northern Minnesota will not be permitted under the law." In the North Country, some claimed they could hear howls of delight...
...junking some of the analysand mannerisms that infected him and his female co-stars over the past few pictures. Danny is the least "Woody Allen" of Allen's screen incarnations. As Tina, Lou's nails-tough mistress with a heart of rhinestone. Mia Farrow is a coarse delight; this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket of a has-been crooner, funny as any Broadway comic could dream of being, appetizing as a pastrami-on-wry sandwich at the Carnegie Deli, Danny Rose is almost impossible not to like...