Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles County attempted a crackdown by requiring masseuses to pay $300 for a two-month training course and produce letters of recommendation from five solid citizens. One result: a switch in operations to nude encounter groups, an "indoor nudist colony," and "outcall massage" services like Hollywood's Chick Delight, which advertises "finger-lickin' good" women who home-deliver "snack boxes of breasts, thighs, white meat and dark." Another L.A. outcall service sets prices according to the skills and dimensions of the woman (one staffer was discounted to $25 because she was seven months pregnant...
...seems with that great American institution, the musical-A Chorus Line notwithstanding. That is what makes this cabaret selection of Leonard Bernstein's theater songs - or rather those tossed out of such shows as Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story - a bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication meant wryness and a wise crack was communication. The cast communicates by singing and dancing, and at least two of them - Patricia Elliott and Janie Sell - should...
Helprin uses a poetic style to capture the tone of the narrative ballad or the epic poem. This gives his plots and characters a remote quality: they are seen through a haze of words. The richness of his language can be a source of delight, and in some of his stories, like "A Jew of Persia," it is effective in creating an atmosphere...
...class lines as cab-drivers, carpenters, farmers, factory-workers, and bums. The spiritual nub of their "downward mobility" was a thirst to encounter the world differently from the way a newly-minted upper middle class professional does--to encounter it with reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals" and "clients," as managers and managed, they and the poor were but two sides of a counterfeit social coin, clasped together in necrophilic embrace, each with...
Especially children's books. At the Christmas season hundreds of new volumes beckon, each with an appealing dust jacket, each with the promise of juvenile delight. It is only upon close examination that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon...