Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Holmes is a kind of boy's man whose greatest joy is tinkering with his chemistry set. In musical terms, he is a drab, antiseptic, kissproof cousin of Henry Higgins. He has his brain on his brain, and he incessantly makes love to it in Fritz Weaver's croaking brand of talkee-singee-"just a loaf of bread and a cryptogram, this were paradise enow...
...Joy House. Cuckolded by an insolent Gallic gigolo (Alain Delon), the American millionaire orders his henchmen...
...Joy Pratt, a vice-president of Brattle Films, said last night that "It is silly, after all these years, to think that the film presents a political philosophy...
...similar to the Wylie case [Feb. 5]. Fortunately, the outcome of Whitmore's case is extremely different, for the lawyers and jury of Wright's novel convicted the Negro suspect and sent him to his death. The disgust I felt after concluding Wright's novel was joy compared to my reaction to the Whitmore case...
...sculptural face of a modern city playground rarely gets more monumental than a jungle gym. Its rectilinear ziggurat of steel lattice is a joy toy for kids, and a spatial bore. But then, who considers a playground worthy of a sculptor's talents? At least, New York city's housing authority did, and let Costantino Nivola, 53, see how he could improve on the blight of monkey bars, slides, and swings that make play grounds across the nation look like a titanic display of naked plumbing...