Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his historic visit to Jerusalem a year ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expressed delight at meeting "the world's most famous mayor." Sadat was not far from the mark. For nearly 13 years, ebullient, tough-talking and relentlessly energetic Teddy Kollek, 67, has presided over Jerusalem in an evenhanded, unceremonious way. On election day last week, Kollek halted a breathless, last-minute round of electioneering to talk with Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and TIME'S Robert Slater about his goals for the city...
Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...
...splashed everywhere in this incredibly macho society); and, of course, no interracial sex. Nothing that would let the whites' moral fiber decline--that is, nothing that would prove too conclusively that whites and blacks are equally human. They are, of course, and the result is a kind of perverse delight in breaking the rules, rather like suburban Americans during...
Well, Bob Scalise has a team; and much to his delight, he also has a center forward who knows where to be when there's scoring to be done. But if you asked the sophomore from Groton, Conn. why she's such a talented spearhead to the Harvard women's soccer attack, she'd be the last person to give you a good reason...
...Rosalinda's Eyes," in contrast, is probably the album's most interesting musical conglomeration. Tying together a bouncy Latin percussion section with a smooth nylon string guitar part and an innovative soprano recorder solo, Joel cooks up a tonal recipe that would delight even the gourmet. But the song of the "crazy Latin" never fulfills the mood, wandering off into ineffective rhyme. With a cute Fender Rhodes carrying the tune, there are reminders of "James," but none of its lyric depth...