Word: revelation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under the daily pressure of second-guessing managers and players, Angell is free to revel in his enthusiasm for the game and to share with us his observations and exuberance. Five Seasons is Angell's second baseball compendium, or "companion," as he terms it; the first, The Summer Game, was an immense critical and popular success. The earlier book argued in breathtakingly convincing fashion the superiority of baseball to other American sports. Specifically, Angell cited the way in which baseball constructs its own temporal and spatial realities, its distinctive and relaxed pace that permits the spectator to gain a complete...
...least words can revel in cornucopia...
...ever sensed that Mick Jagger should have thrown n the towel years ago, this film will show you why. The jig has long been up on Jagger's androgonous lewdness. Yet like the seemingly straight lodger who gets sucked into this singer's hallucinogenic world, you may still revel in the decadence. If you think you might still dig it, as the saying went, go freak yourself...
...splashed so boldly on the screen that the audience is awed into acceptance by its sheer audacity? Or is it, finally, just an act of primal showmanship, a Barnum-like invitation to admit to ourselves that we are all members of the great fraternity of suckerhood and simply revel in the release of cultural inhibitions that admission sometimes encourages...
...young Humphrey, Mecca became Washington, D.C. His first visit in 1935 at age 24 reduced him to barely coherent babbling. To his wife Muriel, he wrote: "Washington, D.C., thrills me to my very fingertips. I simply revel and beam with delight in this realm of politics and government. Oh, gosh-I hope my dream comes true...