Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse: Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many of Chaplin's most famous scenes are found here: the dance of the rolls. Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken. Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands so far above other silent comedians...
...page. A moment of panic sets in. Can this be all? Is memory playing tricks? Most Vic and Sade fans remember only the high spots and forget the in-between. But the real pleasure of the book is that the reader consults the scripts in search of past delights and finds a newer, steadier enjoyment. All the programs are skillfully written, paced and plotted. Each one is a mirror of small-town life and conversation. Then remembered gems begin to appear. Sheer delight-like the first time Vic refers to Sade as "Dr. Streech." Or when Vic comments...
...four lines second for Harvard, but is was the trio of Dave Hynes, But Corkery and Bob McManama the Tigers to the delight of a bloodthirsty SRO crowd...
...Strachey out of his offer. From the Bloomsbury salad days also dated Virginia's flirtation with Clive Bell, the husband of her sister Vanessa. Rivalry was always latent between the sisters, and Vanessa's marital happiness was in some sense unbearable to Virginia. Reacting with typically confused feelings of delight and jealousy. Virginia deepened the sisterly tension by her flirtation, which was instrumental in the slow declension of the Bell marriage. It seems incredible, and above all malicious, that Virginia's objective could have been to isolate her sister from the husband she deeply loved...
...Investors profited from the stock market's climb to new peaks; the Dow Jones industrial average, which started the year at 889, finally cracked the 1000 barrier and closed at 1020 (see box, page 52). The prices that farmers collected for their goods increased by about 15%, bringing delight in the farmhouse while raising howls in the supermarkets and complicating the Government's continuing crusade against inflation. As incomes went up around the nation, retailers saw their sales grow by approximately 10%. Auto manufacturers sold a record 10,800,000 cars, including imports, and builders began construction...