Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandest and most glorious of all fantasies, and Stagecoach, the model for all westerns to come. There was the dark, gothic romance of Wuthering Heights; adventure stories like Gunga Din, Beau Geste and Drums Along the Mohawk; sophisticated comedies like Ninotchka, The Women and Idiot's Delight...
...point outsold the next highest best seller by 15 to 1. Translation rights have been assigned in 24 countries, and an English version by William Weaver will be published in the U.S. next October. Once again the Italian press has orchestrated what it calls Ecomania with cries of delight and outrage. One newspaper praised Foucault's Pendulum as "the novel of the '90s," while the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano denounced it for "vulgarities...
...invited his audience to join the crusade by enlisting as "the Education Congress." Yet the up-front cost of the President's innovative proposals comes to a paltry $58 million, less than $1.50 for every child in the nation's public schools. Cynics, however, could envision the gleam of delight in the eyes of Congress when the President proposed precisely 570 new science scholarships -- one for each member of the Senate and House (including nonvoting delegates) and 30 more that the White House will control...
...fancy showroom is a sensory delight. Soft blue light dances gently around a pool of water on the floor, and delicate sounds of synthesizer music fill the air. On the gray tile wall, ten video screens display soothing images of running streams and ocean waves. Shoppers at the INAX Corp. showroom are delighted: "Suteki ((lovely))," murmurs Tokyo housewife Masako Yakou, happily browsing past rows and rows of shiny new . . . well, er, facilities. Gushes Yakou: "I love toilets...
...traders noted with satisfaction that the rival Chicago markets, which many New York investors blamed for aggravating the stock-market crash of '87, were getting a dose of the scrutiny that the stock markets have long endured. Said the president of a Big Board firm: "There is some quiet delight that the Chicago boys are finally getting their comeuppance...