Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version. It is a $5 delight, its function and structure self-evident, its whimsical spirit exactly appropriate...
Carole FitzPatrick takes an equal and opposite delight in mingling with normal lives; it held her together last year when she was stretched thin earning a master's degree from the Yale School of Music. "Sometimes it's wonderful to be up there with these people who've never had a voice lesson," ( she says, "all of us singing those great words together, all our hearts directed in the same...
...Otto, terrified by Leonardo Da Vinci and forever mussing his unkempt hair, Edwall gives the performance of a career. Too often in Bergman's films has he been relegated to the position of sideline eccentric; here, as the holy fool, he takes center stage. Edwall seems to take unending delight at sticking his rear at the camera; it's the least of his magic tricks in a role that has him walking through glass walls, pirouetting on a bicycle, and taking rabbit punches from passing evil angels. The only problem is that Edwall's Otto forever upstages the characters surrounding...
...senator and a retired longshoreman as he hobnobs with the crew, rehearses the cast and then stands back to watch the action, his eyes twinkling. Between takes, Mailer crosses the street to another pub and peers in at noisy real- life revelers. "Look at this," he roars with proprietary delight. "That's classic Provincetown...
...them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice Adams. Rosanna grates; the film galls...