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...uniforms? Does the team send out disturbing subliminal messages ("Hi, we're the Duke basketball team. Let us delight you with the sound of our nails running down a chalkboard")? The root of this loathing remains a mystery, although I suspect it may have something to do with the team's incorrigibly clean, slightly privileged image - and its annoying tendency...
...Marvel Manner," a combination of idiot-level exposition, purple prose, absurdly contrived fight scenes and melodramatic pathos, can be done right or wrong. Mostly it gets done wrong. But when done right, as by its founders Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and here by Simonson, it can be a delight and impossible to put down. On the first page of this four-issue series Dr. Doom hovers over a storm-swept castle as his doom-bots, "the banshees of hate," come, "skirling down through the sleet... carried on the wings of the whistling wind!" I challenge you not to turn...
...Captain Blood," with the pristine, unblemished Erroll Flynn in his first movie, radiant, animated by pure delight - Flynn before Hollywood and the bottle got him. Olivia DeHavilland: "You speak treason!" Flynn, with a flash of charm: "I hope I'm not obscure...
Much to the staff's delight, they "received a lot of support from the students," Adelman said...
...first period, it was all Big Green as Kristen King and Jennifer Wiehn tallied to put Dartmouth up 2-0 to the delight of a 2000-plus crowd. But Brown came back and dominated the second period to tie the game...