Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitting on cushions on the floor of the mock living room section of Groove Tube's Video Theater batted a bunch of complimentary balloons back and forth, a middle-aged man sitting against the wall across from the Pepsi-filled refrigerator turned to his wife to say "I'm glad we got here early ... It's half the fun." Groove Tube is at least as much fun as playing with balloons. Its 72-minute repertoire of video-taped comedy sketches, visual one-liners, and TV parodies is, with some exceptions, pleasant, if light-weight, entertainment...
...between one pair of finger-legs and upon the inevitable seduction, while in the other sequence the cleverness of the finger ballet yields to a punch-line based on the revelation that the hills on which the fingers dance are the contours of a woman's body. Without these glad-handing denouements, the sequences are enormously interesting dramas in miniature; with them, the sequences lose their simplicity as the end-result detracts from the interesting means used to achieve...
...Duehay go over to the Boston schools if he wants to see some real problems," Frisoli said. "I'm glad that we've had no bloodshed. I'm not a racist, and neither am I a progressive nor a conservative; but when the time has come to say no, I have said it firmly...
...wins, we'll be glad." DiCara's father says matter-of-factly, "and if he doesn't, he's still young." He and Mrs. DiCara had "mixed feelings" about their son's decision to run, but were not surprised. "There are lots of pitfalls," Mr. DiCara continued. "You can get buffeted around." He and his wife remember the threatening calls after their son picked lottery numbers. And it was only a few summers ago, according to DiCara, that he was threatened by knife-wielding youths who, he said, thought he was being too kind to blacks at a Dorchester playground...
...mother's ears! How glad he crawls...