Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breathe life into the flat character of Pamira--the daughter of the governor of Corinth who is torn between love for her country and love for the Turk King Maometto, her father's enemy. Sills's Pamira was emotionally focused--a earess of Maometto's arm conveyed sexual delight, and one act later a subtly different touch of the sleeve of Neocle, the Greek warrior she's supposed to marry, indicated a dutiful, patriotic love without passion. The libretto is tedious, and often slightly ridiculous--several of the most dance-like arias have the most tragic texts, and Sills pulled...
...Butley's students; now, he is an assistant lecturer worried about his promotion who shares who both office and apartment with his mentor. He is also a homosexual. Watching these two English scholars as they struggle their way through their forensic and clearly intimate friendship is a delight. Early in the first act, Ben badgers Joey with questions about his new found friend, Reg, a brawny football and cooking enthusiast from Leeds, commenting. "My natural force plays excitingly with your natural submissiveness." But running beneath the wisecracks and put-downs is a strong undercurrent of jealousy, that grows stronger...
...customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded pal, called Ratnose. Connoisseurs of the etiquette of male affection in films will notice the hero's farewell to the dying Ratnose-giving his nostrils a hearty but melancholy pull-with some guarded delight...
...Sallor's Delight...
...nothing else, living off campus necessitates becoming one's own caretaker and meeting added responsibilities. But the additional obligations, such as buying food, paying rent and utilities bills and dealing with other domestic tasks, appear to be outweighed by the delight of being able to leave Harvard every day and relaxing within the confines of one's own home...