Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TURKISH DELIGHT...
...attitudes-they might collectively be called punk psychotic-that animated the recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed gay as a fierce and desperate stall against fate...
...liberals. Drawing from the back files of Politics, the superb little magazine he edited and published (and often practically wrote) between 1944 and 1949, he offers the definitive gloomy word on Wendell Willkie and Henry Wallace -targets that may not exactly fascinate a post-Watergate reader. But what a delight to watch the Master at work...
...marvel of utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen in the fields. Similes are there to surprise and delight: a mule is "pretty as a peeled onion," a group of children is "raggedy as a can of kraut...
Zappa's musical output in the last year and double concert at Boston's Orpheum theater last weekend suggest that the brilliant composer may decide eventually to sacrifice his art for greater public acclaim and a higher income. To Zappa's delight, his last three albums, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe' and Roxy & Elsewhere, scaled the charts and seduced a new crop of listeners--mostly teenyboppers jaded by glitter rock--into becoming "Zappa Freaks." But all this success spells trouble. The band that once proclaimed it had "no commercial potential" is now in danger of becoming much too commercial...