Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need not be reminded that evil, demented people enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on others. Such exposures are tasteless to normal people and dangerous to others...
...deceptively cherubic man of 58, Jimmy Kruger is a traditional Afrikaner puritan, the product of a farming family and a correspondence-course college education. As Justice Minister, he seems to enjoy the diversion of cracking down on Sunday movies, which are technically illegal under South Africa's blue laws. Himself the father of two sons (his wife Susanna is the author of a book of essays), he often speaks of his country's race problems in unabashedly paternalistic tones. "Anarchy-that's what the children of Soweto want," he told a local newspaper. "And if their parents...
This Labor Day weekend all across the land, in nearly unimaginable numbers, Americans will be hard at work, puffing and stroking and grinding their teeth as they enjoy a game that seems to consist of swatting fuzz-covered rubber balls across a net. For some years now, this phenomenon has been comfortably referred to as the tennis boom. But the phrase simply no longer serves to describe the massive outpourings of cash and angst, the pop convolutions of status and commerce now going on in the once staid world of tennis. Even the word orgy, though it has some...
...object is marriage, sex or companionship, the immediate subject is tennis. At the Lakeshore Racquet Club in Chicago, for example, Friday and Saturday are Swingers Nights. Single players pay $7 apiece for drinks, use of the chalet-like lounge overlooking the courts and a chance to enjoy musical tennis, i.e., mixed doubles played by six-person teams?three men, three women?so that two can always be sidelined to encourage light conversation. A tennis pro makes sure everyone "mixes," and gives sporadic pointers on the play...
...that bad ..." sings Neil Diamond in his Crunchy Granola baritone. "You're alive, you might as well be glad." Three and a half years ago, when he was close to the top of the rock pile, Diamond decided to take a performing sabbatical and enjoy family life. Back on the boards again - last month he earned $500,000 for three concerts in Las Vegas - he also has a new LP zooming up the pop-music charts. Diamond long ago found a formula that really works: sentimental lyrics, singalong tunes, jagged rhythms...