Word: revell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actors revel in this atmosphere. Says Beverly D'Angelo, who plays a shrieking witch in Sleeping Beauty: "Every actor is a child, and what Shelley has basically done is build a playpen where we can go in and use words and just play." For Reeve, the experience was liberating: "You get back the sense of fun in acting, the feeling you had doing a school play like The Skin of Our Teeth, when you stayed afterward painting scenery...
While the smaller weekly meetings were said to be enjoyable challenges, active SCA dians confess they were mere stepping stones compared to the one grant-like monthly SCA event. Lasting up to 12 hours, these bashes may include a jousting match, a revel or feast, or the rare Coronation of a King and Queen...
...reunioners aren't oblivious to these doctorings. But they revel in them. "They did the same thing 25 years ago," said one. "They even painted concrete green. But the Yard is beautiful...
HARVARD STUDENTS complain about everything from Food Services to scholars who last revised their lecture notes while consulting for the Eisenhower Administration. We revel in self-pity, especially when forced to digest large quantities of coursework in a short period of time. In Lowell House, some of my colleagues derive a strange pleasure from spending exam periods huddled in the dining hall, comparing the huge castles they have built out of unread history books and scientific manuals...
...Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...