Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggling pre-freshman and freshman, and who "hung out" all or mostly black. Are they failures by virtue of this social pattern? No, sir, you are a failure to me because you signify the disunity and lack of cohesiveness in our community. You seem to genuinely relish your semesterly denunciations of Black students before the public. You are not proud enough of you, convictions to bring your criticisms to the Black student body, yet attempt to shame us in the public view by treating us as caged animals whose behavior can be pointed at through cage bars. Well...
Jack Nicholson plays the role of Henry Moone with an unmistakable relish that suggests self-indulgence as the major appeal of the part. Moone is a bank robber and horse thief whose neck is scheduled to be caressed by the coarse noose of a hangman's rope, as reward for his many trans gressions against border town society and the upstanding folks of Longhorn, Texas. An ornery sort by nature, Moone greets the attending man of the cloth at the gallows with an irreverent "Go to hell." This kind of gutter humor holds the film together during the ensuing...
Despite the cramped quarters, the new planes should delight those passengers who relish the sensation of flying. They will lift off more easily, climb effortlessly and cruise quietly through the skies at an average 550 m.p.h. The planes will be much more stable at lower speeds than today's jets, and landings will be safer...
DYLAN TRIES TO FIT a ballad into his new style in "Changin of the Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals...
...Michael Blumenthal, now Treasury Secretary, was then picking up odd jobs in Shanghai as the son of expatriate Germans. The two did not meet until much later in the U.S., but they relish trading reminiscences about the China of their youth...