Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saddened to read of the dismissal of William M. ("Fishbait") Miller, the doorkeeper for the House [Dec. 16]. I remember, as will many Americans under similar circumstances, meeting Fishbait in his office. We were educated, entertained and humbled by the history and stories expounded by him. He was a delight...
...should anyone revive this creaky play, the hit of the London stage in 1841? In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde. Yet he took a romantic's delight in character. London Assurance is peopled with enough eccentrics to fill the portmanteau of a Victorian novel. Welding this strength to the polished ensemble skills of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Adapter-Director Ronald Eyre has transformed an old chestnut into a parody of what is already a near parody of Restoration comedy...
...respectful notices that this film received after its initial U.S. opening in Los Angeles are puzzling enough, but it has nowhere been noted that Turkish Delight represents a particularly vicious fantasy of sexual retribution. The wife cuts out on the husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives...
...been present at the closing scene of some dramatic spectacle," as indeed, in Turner's view, they had: What more vivid image of the punishment of English hubris could he have asked for? All Turner is in his view of the conflagration: it is the essence of his delight in elemental conflict-fire raging in the clear mirror of water, its ruddy glow drifting west across a night sky cool as china...
...shades of Freud and Jung, of magic, myth and racial memory, now hover (drearily or provocatively, depending on one's point of view) around any collection of the Brothers Grimm. There is no need to be owlish, however, about the clear fact that fairy tales address with considerable delight some persistent human need, at the very simplest, to half-believe that every life is a mysterious personal adventure worth pursuing to the bitter end. Why? Because -who knows? - every faithful goose girl may become a princess, every mean, usurping maid become a deserving corpse. This fine re-edition...