Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a restaurant in Manhattan whose walls are covered with posters of Broadway flops. If a show has had a run, forget it; it won't even be allowed over the grease trap. Jill Clayburgh has the same perverse delight in failure, and, without once batting her intense blue eyes, she will reel off a list of her own disasters long enough to paper the Taj Mahal. There was the time she played Desdemona in Los Angeles and audiences almost cheered when Othello smothered her. Then there was the opening night of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers...
...Boylston Street that had been locked up and unclaimed for several years. Curiosity as to the cabinet's contents led to the tracking down of its key by Promotion Director Robert B. Donovan. The results of its opening are enough to make an ardent archivist drool with sheer delight...
...Leslie Greis is 100 per cent Harvard. Her attitudes and philosophies would delight even the staunchest Crimson traditionalist...
Greis says she also likes Cambridge and the Northeast in general. "I considered Duke, because they have a women's golf team and also a good academic program," Greis says. But she explains, in a fashion that would delight Harvard idealists, that her decision to come to Cambridge involved a bit of foresight...
...superbly displayed his talents for promotion in 1964, when he was matched for the title with Champion Sonny Liston, a great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...