Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand makes her movie debut in a loud musical biography of Fanny Brice. Miss Streisand is onscreen most of the time, which may delight rabid fans, but can give others a sense of uneasy familiarity...
Well of Feeling. On political issues he is the essence of what Britons call bloody-mindedness-the trait of holding to one's own convictions, no matter how wrongheaded they may seem to others. He is the delight of right-wing Tories in money matters, demanding the abolition of government fiscal controls and proposing to cut income taxes in half and reduce government spending drastically. On foreign policy issues, he is a devout "Little Englander," who would end all of Britain's commitments beyond Europe, dissolve the Commonwealth and cut loose Rhodesia to go the route of former...
...energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main characters will be based on her father, a redoubtable writer of westerns (under pseudonyms like Ben Delight and Jack Wonder) who died...
Tamara Long, as the slinky heavy, brandishes a flaming Morganitic torch for her Mister Man, and Sally Stark, as Ruby's peroxided pal, belts a note almost as plangent as the great Merman's. The comic delight of the show, though, is Bernadette Peters, whose Ruby can simultaneously sing and dance up a storm that puts all New York (including Queen Mane of Rumania) at her feet. She can also lament her unrequited love with a tear that streaks mascara down her cheek in a lugubrious perfection of timing...
...individual whose highly eloquent defense of conservatism has remained a constant source of delight to many of us, the man who has mastered the art of the intelligent putdown: William F. Buckley...