Word: delights
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Quick to milk the sappy humor in "Hoffmann," the directors urged the title character to belt out a booming "Stel-la!" at the end, as his beloved runs off with the enemy, much to the delight of the laughing audience. Who knows what's next? Maybe a posthumous Tennessee Williams libretto. (Hey, it worked for Marge Simpson...
...read syndicated columnist; in Washington. Dixon's star (she was a Capricorn) began to rise following her prediction (published in 1956) that a young Democratic President elected in 1960 would die in office. A number of her prophecies came true (the fall of the Berlin Wall), but to skeptics' delight, many did not (Soviets getting to the moon first...
...baby tries to touch a tantalizing object or gazes intently at a face or listens to a lullaby, tiny bursts of electricity shoot through the brain, knitting neurons into circuits as well defined as those etched onto silicon chips. The results are those behavioral mileposts that never cease to delight and awe parents. Around the age of two months, for example, the motor-control centers of the brain develop to the point that infants can suddenly reach out and grab a nearby object. Around the age of four months, the cortex begins to refine the connections needed for depth perception...
...traditions of Venetian painting, he taught himself to be one of the most audacious space composers in the history of art, capable of dissolving a solid ceiling into light and vapor. But the distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern, even though there isn't an artist today who could begin to rival that virtuosity...
...Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through and maybe even used to prop open a door. In short, a visual delight...