Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined by the company and that seemed to be determined largely by the boy's pocket book. Boys were expected to pay for everything on a date. But dates did not need to be expensive--there were lots of plays, concerts, lectures, two movie theaters, cheap eateries and pleasant excursions locally. I went to only one or two football games a year I think--a game with the wrong person was a very long, expensive date...
...likely to be heterozygous, meaning that they have one dominant and one recessive gene. Non-tasters of these bitter stimuli have two recessive genes. It was interesting to notice how the tastes literally "felt" as they were being washed over the tongue. Salt and sweet were warm and pleasant; sweet was the most relaxing and salt was exhilarating. Bitterness curled the edges of the tongue. Sour felt icy and caused the surface of the tongue to contract...
...skillful and professional, he has wildly miscast some roles. Several of his players are too old for their parts; some are not attractive enough to justify the admiration the play says they capture. The production, with one intermission, runs more than four grueling hours. It would be pleasant to report that Sellars' experiment in cultural détente is a brilliant failure. But that would be only half true...
...residents on edge two years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...
...American author in search of a subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love affair, the second reveals...