Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Muggs, where are you? TV Host Mike Douglas, in Planet of the Apes makeup, strode onstage last week at Philadelphia's KYW-TV studios to tape his daily talk show. His first guest was Trainer Bill Hampton with Marvin the Magnificent, a 100-lb. chimp. To the delight of the audience, Marvin recognized a pal right away. He stroked Mike's unusually pale paw consideringly, then sat back on his haunches and let out a few friendly howls. "The volume could have parted your hair," said Mike later. When Douglas mimicked...
Berry finds that "Greenspan is a delight to interview. He takes great pains to be precise and to present his views in complete packages...
...corrals from Mineral Wells, Texas, to Deadwood, S. Dak., the basic ingredients of the community-organized rodeo have not changed. Bareback bronc and brahma bull riding, the meanest rodeo events, still delight the fans and break the bones of contestants. Shot into the arena on the back of an insanely bucking bull or bronc, the rider must stay aboard for eight frantic seconds, holding on by his spurs and a rope cinch that he is allowed to grasp with only one hand. If the cowboy survives the frenzied ride, two judges score his effort for degree of difficulty and quality...
...boned, and one may look in vain-except in the hundreds of tiny and miraculously spontaneous oil sketches and color notes that fill the Musée Moreau in Paris-for that dynamism that animated Moreau's romantic predecessors, Delacroix and Chassériau. Rather, it is a delight of surface. To fix it, Moreau resorted to what he called the "beauty of inertia." He noted of Michelangelo, whom he adored: "All these figures seem fixed in a gesture of ideal somnambulism; they are unconscious of the movements they make." Once immobilized, the figures in his allegorical paintings-Oedipus...
...feelings about what she did," said Actor Lewis J. Stadlen of the Broadway musical Candide. Ten minutes before the show began one day last week, Stadlen, who plays Dr. Pangloss, had climbed into the bed that dominates the open set surrounded on all sides by the audience. To his delight, Hepburn was sitting out front. Next thing he knew, "She just sidled into bed with me," said the startled actor. Hepburn stayed a mere 15 seconds under the covers, then murmured, "Excuse me," and returned to her seat. Said Stadlen: "She looked great, especially her body. It was as trim...