Word: revell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living to their servants; these days, we would just as soon leave it to our monarchs. We demand of them, moreover, a double role: they must be godlike mortals, fallible gods. Upon peering into their closets, we wish not only to marvel at the gowns but also to revel in the skeletons that hang there...
...this light, Extreme becomes an entertaining piece of Hollywood garbage, endearing precisely because it stinks. File it in between Plan 9 From Outer Space and Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens and revel in the unintentional hilarity. All Extreme Prejudice lacks are extra-terrestrial vehicles that look like Chrysler hubcaps...
Like their star, Newhart's shows seem to revel in obscurity. Though it enjoyed six successful seasons on CBS in the 1970s, The Bob Newhart Show never escaped the shadow of its longtime lead-in on Saturday nights, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. His current series, Newhart, which debuted on CBS in 1982, has ranked consistently in the Nielsen Top 20 for the past three seasons. Yet tucked away on Monday nights following the higher-profile Kate & Allie, it has been the most unsung good show...
...payment? The chance to revel in baseball to my heart's content...
...stripped of her godhood in one of Wagner's noblest, most poignant scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music. As George Bernard Shaw observed, "Die Walkure is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon or even a House of Commons debate...