Word: delights
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...placed Tote machines in Madison Square Garden, they could fill the joint with suckers every night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...
...wife and children are O.K. Seated on a black vinyl banquette beneath the leaves of a plastic orange tree, he swills down a triple martini poured from a Boodles bottle and served in a pitcher. By then he may or may not be equal to the doubt ful delight of a tough country pate made with pistachio nuts...
...delight the literary hero of my youth is now recognized as a genius...
...tumbling torrents. As a professional, Cole rejoiced because it was also a landscape that-unlike the more familiar Alps and the more picturesque Italian ruins-was at the time undiscovered by artists. "No Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds," he wrote with delight, "but primeval forests and virgin lakes...
...performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater as the mock hero of Moliere's comedy. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, his Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, a stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...