Word: delights
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...seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
Harvard is fortunate to have such a gem of a church in her midst--indeed right in her own front yard--and Harvard and Memorial Church are fortunate and blessed to have Gomes at the helm of such an energetic enterprise. His scholarship and values are unquestionable; his delight in and kindness toward everyone, equally, is legend...
...little later, at a Tomba press conference, the second -- and most successful -- Filipino athlete in Winter Games history giggles with unstoppable delight at everything the champion says. Teruel is thinking now, he says, of trying for the Summer Games. "I know it's unrealistic," he adds with a sheepish smile, "but when something's unrealistic, I really...
Presley returned twice monthly for 17 months. He sat in the chair Stein still uses and read comic books, sometimes whooping with delight when he came to a good part, Stein said...
...behavioral scientist is hoping to solve one of life's oldest riddles with a toybox full of police cars, Lincoln Logs and Barbie dolls. For the past two years, Hines and her colleagues have tried to determine the origins of gender differences by capturing on videotape the squeals of delight, furrows of concentration and myriad decisions that children from 2 1/2 to 8 make while playing. Although both sexes play with all the toys available in Hines' laboratory, her work confirms what most parents (and more than a few aunts, uncles and nursery- school teachers) already know. As a group...