Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave Australia a little something to remember her by. At a royal ball at Melbourne's Hilton hotel, she stopped conversation dead by making her entrance in a shimmery, ice-gray gown cut daringly deep across one shoulder. At Auckland's Eden Park, Diana elicited squeals of delight from 35,000 schoolchildren when, with three Maori teenagers, she joined in the hongi, the traditional Polynesian greeting of pressing noses. Prince Charles, meanwhile, was nearly relegated to the role of spear chucker. A native warrior thrust a ceremonial spear at him and asked if he came in peace...
Master of nuance, connoisseur of transparent things, Vladimir Nabokov disliked the blunt instruments of art. "I remember with delight," he liked to say, "tearing apart Don Quixote, a cruel and crude old book, before six hundred students . . ." Yet he lectured on the book at Harvard, partly because it was required reading but also because it struck some chord in the speaker. The lectures, reconstructed by Editor Fredson Bowers, disclose reasons for that resonance...
...Nifty! Eek! Gosh! Lookit! Oh boy! Those unique, familiar chirrups and chortles of gustatory delight are wafting through the kitchen once more as cameras record another salivant television series by Julia Child. The wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia...
...rebel horde intent on driving out the British. (This, incidentally, makes the action hard to date precisely: Afghanistan won its independence in 1919, but the Charleston did not become popular overseas until the mid-20's.) Typical barbarians, they sing ethnic songs, dance wildly, offer to buy Eve, and delight in killing Enlishmen.(Never mind that the Afghans were nationalists fighting for liberation.) No tears, then, when O'Malley bombs half the camp out of existence while escaping. Or, as old man Tozer says after they find him in China. "There's battles gotta be fought. Maybe this...
...three other members of his family. Later, authorities announced that Nkomo's wife had been released on unspecified "humanitarian grounds," although the other family members remained in custody. Publicly, government officials (though not Mugabe, who was away attending the New Delhi summit conference for nonaligned nations) expressed delight that Nkomo had decided to "take the gap," the phrase usually reserved for whites leaving black-ruled Zimbabwe. Privately, they feared that Nkomo's escape would exacerbate the situation at home and further damage the country's reputation overseas...