Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strolling through Boston's North End usually means a search for either fresh fruit and vegetables or a good restaurant, not an art gallery. Still, if you are in the North End, and if Regina's pizza or some other Italian culinary delight does not lure you away first, consider travelling a few flights up at 77 North Washington Street to the Boston Visual Artists' Union (BVAU) gallery...
...wrapped in pita bread and packed with lettuce, tomatoes and onions, sprinkled with paprika and the mysterious special sauce that adds a kick to the dish. It looks like an ice cream cone with meat on top the way they wrap it up, and it's a sure fire delight...
...through the crowd of 12,500. Sharp-eyed men with pads and pencils, they liked what they saw, and knew what they would be getting. With his emphasis on fundamentals and unselfish shotmaking, Wootten's players can play defense as well as drive home a dunk-to the delight of college coaches. And his insistence on academic achievement produces athletes who can parse a sentence as well as pass a basketball-to the relief of admissions deans...
Excitable Boy is the title of Zevon's new record, his second in as many years. It continues further along into the neon netherworld explored in his first major album. Zevon sings songs of madness and delight, all about spies and mercenaries, traitors and lost lovers, spooks, werewolves and other halfway creatures of the night. Quite characteristically, his "excitable boy" shows up in the title cut (co-written with Marinell) transformed into a raging madman, whose exploits are chronicled with sardonic relish...
...wits Sam Bloomfield has an acceptable British accent and a smooth, resonant voice. But his characterization is superficial--a lot of surface bluster with little going on underneath. He has no spontaneity; the words sound as though he has said them too many times before, and he takes no delight in his own verbal cleverness. It is not a bad performance, but Wyke is a tantalizing character--a child clinging stubbornly to the bogus world of titled detectives, plodding inspectors, and stuffy drawing-rooms--and Bloomfield misses practically every opportunity to make him ingratiating...