Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their delight in Baby Doc's ouster was obvious. But were they happy enough to want to return to Haiti? In Miami and New York City, which have the largest Haitian enclaves in the U.S., some people claimed their bags were already packed. But most were circumspect. "I want to go back today, but I must wait until I see who is going to run things," said Philippe Georges, 58, a sewing machine mechanic in Miami's garment district. "The boy wasn't the only bad one in Haiti...
...world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted in a capricious parody of pictorial richness. A load of modernist signs for sensual delight--thick, ropy color that invokes the transparency of water, spots and scribbles betokening light, bits of Matisse interiors, Dufy ports, Bonnard trees, Monet ponds--is dumped on the eye and offered for identification as quotes. Bartlett's studio was one of the places where the '80s mania for "appropriation" began...
...huge edifice of eccentric scholarship to prove a personal point: poetry arose in the worship of the Ur-Female and could only be brought back to life by returning to this adoration. That was his lifelong mission, and his love poems praised both joy and sorrow: "Take your delight in momentariness,/ Walk between dark and dark--a shining space/ With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace." Robert Graves was the last Romantic...
...Lichauco, the sister of Aquino's husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino. In just 20 minutes, the two candidates agreed to revive their deal for a unified slate. At 10:30 p.m., Aquino and Laurel returned to COMELEC and re-registered. By agreement--and to Aquino's obvious delight--the new papers listed her as the presidential candidate and Laurel as her running mate. For Laurel, there was the satisfaction that the ticket would be fielded under the banner of the party he had spent years building, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO...
...perhaps imagine yourself in grade school, when you took eager delight in asking your teacher to define "adultery" or "orgasm." This movie is slightly less mature in its earnestness over only marginally dirty words. Or perhaps move up to high school, when even elementary literary explications might have still sounded somewhat profound. Now imagine that elementary, lecturing tone describing what's obvious to you about Mr. Joyce, and you have James Joyce's Women...