Word: jollyness
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Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took...
Still and all, the mood of the evening is impeccably sustained and, rather surprisingly, it is not so much jolly and summery as triste and autumnal. It is as if these world-weary beings had sated their aristocratic tastes on almost every experience except the simplest of joys. Designer Boris...
In those days we blamed the rules for what felt like the failure of active Sexual Liberation at Harvard. So we campaigned for their removal, hoping secretly that the traditions--the milk and cookies on Saturday nights, the midnight food raids on the kitchen, sedate jolly-ups, all part of...
The actors, who have all been excellent elsewhere, are at loose ends here. Jane Fonda's Iris is a warmed-over, heart-of-gold hooker; Sutherland's Jesse so unflappable and cool he suffers from frostbite. Peter Boyle's jolly schizophrenic has lots of identities to assume...
Like Dickens, Alger loved this world despite all the cruelty and cor ruption. His Wall Street district scenes give off a certain jolly hum. He describes a midtown brownstone as if his nose were pressed against the window. Writing of nickel rides on the el or six-course meals (wine...