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...border...you get theidea. If Annie is going to have a lohhhvlahwahhhdink, George is going to have to cough up the$1200 for Franck's kek, even though, as George soinsensitively points out, a kek is just flour andwater. "Wilcome to za Nahntees, Moostah Bahnks!"Franck cackles with tyrannical glee. So Nina tellsGeorge to stop being such a spoilsport. So Georgerelents. So Annie smiles with relief. Good boy,George...
Afterwards, the Crimson couldn't stop gushing over how goalie Chuckie Hughes (38 saves) kept the Crimson alive. Of course, once all the glee over `breaking the Beanpot jinx' ended, Harvard had to get down to business: a final against BU, which perennially finished strong...
...misery loves company, a lot of recession-battered Americans may be gazing across the sea. There is certainly fuel for economic schadenfreude -- the sneaky feeling of glee at your neighbor's troubles -- over there. Europe has fallen into a slump since the middle of last year, and unemployment and stagnation are becoming political problems as well. The American tourists who have seen how well Europeans live may find it difficult to believe, but hard times there are a fact...
...Quayle, as the series says, "expresses approval and glee" at some of his wife's "mischievous" potshots, then he is likely to be delighted by the political barbs she has included in her soon-to-be-published thriller, Embrace the Serpent. Written with her sister Nancy Northcott, the book features imperialist Russians and drug-running Arabs conspiring to replace a dead Castro with another evil Cuban dictator. Readers who can get past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations...
Among several lavish set pieces, the showstopper is a Turkish scene at the end of the first act. Such exotic interludes were a vogue in the 18th century, and Corigliano and Hoffman mock the form with glee. The setting is an outlandish reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley...