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...Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...church a few blocks away from Beatty's jury-rigged attic office in Easton's Tidewater Inn, some of the nation's finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Fowl Festival | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...this weekend's slayings of the two squads that inflicted the damage came as pleasant news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Avenge Last Year's Losses | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...carve a big smile in it, scoop out its brains, stick a candle inside and let it sit on your windowsill. Similarly, Andy Rooney's essays are goofy and brainless, but also warm and pleasant...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: A Lime and a Pumpkin | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...despite her best efforts, so typical of the tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds it pleasant but bittersweet, the principal male organ still seems "infected: sore, red, puffy...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: Why Do Intellectuals Fall in Love? | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

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