Word: relishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall, like a plane in air pockets, but then he would suddenly soar and disappear. Of course I realize I'll have to pay for my boldness, but the prospect of ending up in his stomach, in that steel bag, I tell you straight, I don't relish in the least...
...cupboard I have to come back to the city and buy everything there," says one Moscow schoolteacher, who vacations in the suburbs. "Our dacha also needs a new roof, so my husband bangs and works all day while I cook meals on a hotplate and fight mosquitoes." Many vacationers relish swapping tales of the challenges of their rustic lives. But give up those precious days in the country? Nyet...
...Shining is strangely flawed. Kubrick's film contains more than two hours of intellectual horror, too much suggestive fear for those audiences hoping for a bood and guts creature form the black lagoon/omen/jaws/prophecy, or even those expecting Hitchcock-like suspense. It demands patience, a susceptibility to delicate suspense, a relish for the ounce of boredom that wafts through a hallway before all hell breaks loose. And even with these allowances, The Shining still lacks a telepathic logic that might make it perfect...
...lucky that Dale is so irresistible, since the book makes him a horseless rider. Writer Mark Bramble has sketched in the details of Barnum's career like a superficially canned guided tour. We can grasp Barnum's relish for humbuggery (There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute), but not the calm, staunch loyalty his wife (Glenn Close) displays even during his dalliance with "the Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind (Marianne Tatum...
...will broadcast the opera as a miniseries, one act each night following the April 13 program. The rare hour is the first one, because Opening Night is the work of people who know the opera world, relish its absurdities and are candid enough to show the temperaments that make it grand...