Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, hey, what do you do if you've been on the team three years and they don't know about what you can do yet. And then we get to the end of the year, and they start telling me how I was a pleasant surprise...
...Pleasant surprise?" he says, laughing incredulously. "I said, 'Didn't you know I ran the 100 in 9.6, didn't you know I weigh 190 pounds? That's odd, a pleasant surprise...
...took only a few seconds more for Hassan Bandegi, 52, head of the town council in the pleasant northeastern Iran community of Tabas, to comprehend what was happening. In a country that has recorded 20,000 earthquakes and aftershocks in the past 18 years and suffered an estimated 100,000 casualties as a result, another temblor of major proportion had struck. In its aftermath last week, even seasoned rescue workers were appalled by what they found as they dug through the ruins of Tabas. Of the town's 17,000 people, as many as 15,000 had perished...
...spurring investments. As a result, he believes, the U.S. and other industrial powers have a good chance of coming out of "the malaise of the 1970s" into a long era of moderate but steady and less inflationary growth in the 1980s. Eckstein foresees some danger, but a rather pleasant one. Once the slowdown is over, he thinks, the economy will expand so rapidly through 1980 that by early 1981 "a safely re-elected Carter Administration"?or its successor?will be faced with the problem of slowing it down again...
Death on the Nile is really very pleasant entertainment-professionally crafted by writer and director, wittily acted, most handsome in its photography, its period sets and costumes. These are all qualities not to be sneezed at in a time when both entertainment and professionalism in aid of amusement, that not very grand but very basic commodity, are in short supply at the movies. Perhaps it is because the picture comes so close to being something more than entertainment, comes close not to art but to something almost as rare-the genuinely delightful -that one comes away from it uneasily, vaguely...