Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Containing only the lightest and most digest-able materials, "Sitting Pretty" is easy to enjoy in a light mood. Often in the past the movies have given suburbia benign pokes in ribs, and this one, a kind of combination of "Claudia" and "Blondie" is among the best of the genre. As usual nothing much happens; a number of people think something, especially cuckoldry, is happening; but the audience, smugly aware that everything's just fine, keeps its happiness and its equanimity...
...During the past year I never once thought I would ever look forward to returning to the dreary ruins of Germany. Yet I had such a feeling this week on crossing the border and leaving Czechoslovakia. It is not that I have learned to enjoy living among Germans and their dreams of the past, but on this trip I found it heartbreaking to continue talking with Czech democrats who see nothing but fear in the future...
Just as there are people who enjoy batting their heads against a wall there are the ski-jumpers. But ski-jumping isn't as dangerous as it sounds. There are more people killed or injured each year hunting sharks with knives or playing Russian roulette, than in slat sailing. In a recent article Art Devlin claimed jumpers are hurt only once in every thousand jumps, but Lloyds of London is still loath to take any policies in the ski-jumping field...
...Take an hour off and evaluate yourself in terms of a labor marked. Don't grab something you feel you won't enjoy. Better work is done, and more money generally earned from jobs the workers enjoy. Also, a successful season at a particular place should guarantee re-employment at increased salary...
...worst of it was that I couldn't enjoy the staff's medical talents myself because of acute dehydration." Kenyon explained bemusedly last night. "Its extremely encouraging to discover, however, that red blood flows in your veins," he added...