Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch; it was the decade. And he was right, as he so often is in this wicked, witty and refreshingly sane volume of diaries. Much of the work he so archly deplored has already been forgotten, while his own plays continue to please and delight, as they probably will for as long as audiences enjoy laughing. Present Laughter (1942), with George C. Scott, is one of this year's Broadway hits, and just two weeks ago, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton announced that they will team up once again to do a Broadway revival of Private Lives (1930), which...
...many prominent educators involved in the fight to improve schooling--including Harvard admissions officers Dean K. Whitla and William R. Fitzsimmons '67, as well as assorted experts on education--should now be hoping against hope that their efforts might, just might have already made a difference. But their delight should not prematurely convince them that all will be well, any more than years of experience have taught them to implicitly trust the SAT. Nor should it inflame to make more extravagant claims. A good statistic is a lot more pleasant to believe in than a bad statistic...
...everywhere are the degree to which the personality of a candidate, or a local dispute, will override other concerns. The absence of a campaign for the White House permits voters in off years to focus on matters closer to home, and they often do, with cantankerous, unpredictable, ticket-splitting delight...
...listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn can reveal sudden, unexpected beauties...
...Skid Row," laments the heroine in Little Shop of Horrors, the cheery, off-Broadway hit now playing in New York City. You don't meet nice plants either. The star of the show is a wonderfully animated blob of garden life named Audrey II that takes a carnivorous delight in human blood. The description once fit Roger Corman, 56, too. But that was in the days when he ran American International Pictures, producing such classics as Not of This Earth, A Bucket of Blood and a little-known 1960 pastiche shot in just two days called The Little Shop...