Word: revell
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After the tight security that surrounded John Paul's visit to South Korea, the Pope seemed to revel in the enthusiastic reception that greeted him in Port Mores by, the capital of Papua New Guinea. The Pontiff won many hearts when, at a Mass, he said the Lord's Prayer in pidgin English, the most common local patois. "Papa bilong mipela, yu stap long heven . . ." At the local sports field he watched benignly as bare-breasted women in grass skirts chanted hymns and drummers sporting feathered headdresses pounded out an accompaniment on hollow logs covered with animal skins...
...typical student. "I guess I am typical," replies Brooke Shields. "I'm taking 17 units." Not much else seemed average about Shields, 18, as the media flocked to cover her college stage debut last week in Princeton University's 95th annual Triangle Club student revue. Revel Without a Pause features the comely coed in five short skits, including a musical number with a tune called Spiller, a sendup of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Who knows, with luck and hard work Shields may eventually get the lead in a Princeton drama-club production. How about an adaptation...
...time for those of us who love baseball to revel in the simple joys of the game itself. Only the crankiest managers talk about winning down here. It is sport virtually without competition...
Maybe the U.S. should punish this "Israeli aggression" by dumping Israel, and instead siding with the Moslem nations (even though we already support and trade with most of them, anyway). So we dump a friendly, allied nation in favor of hostile, unstable countries that revel in anti-American, anti-Western, and even anti-Super Power rhetoric: countries, that the record shows, have a history of sticking up for themselves alone, and a propensity for violating alliances and treaties...
...overnight multimillionaires, though, revel in their new prominence. Apple Computer Co-Founder Steven Jobs, who is now worth about $185 million, has toyed with the idea of going into politics and was seen escorting Actress Diane Keaton to a Manhattan disco. When Altos Computer Systems Founder David Jackson began counting his wealth in nine figures, he turned up at the Kentucky Derby with then Governor John Y. Brown and was a guest at a San Francisco reception for Queen Elizabeth...