Word: savor
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...with adult actors as the kids). He larded his breakthrough series, Pennies from Heaven, with sentimental tunes from his '30s infancy. "Childhood," Potter said, "is full to the brim with fear, horror, excitement, joy, boredom, love, anxiety." He was welcome to cherish his youth; he never got to savor...
...anonymous Kennedy staffer wished she could find her Crimson press credentials so she could savor a croissant sandwich, at which she marveled because it contained roasted peppers...
Some of South Africa's whites fear that their black fellow citizens will visit on them the same codified cruelty they inflicted on the blacks. "Those who have followed our policy generally," Mandela insisted, "will dismiss those rumors without hesitation." No doubt some of the 30 million blacks would savor a taste of revenge, but for now they are a small minority...
Even before Berlusconi could savor his triumph, however, rifts opened in his fragile odd-bedfellows alliance. The federalists of the Northern League, weary of watching their tax money leave the region, yearn to hive off Italy's rich north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini...
...have to be a sabermetrician, just a movie mogul, to savor these stats and take counsel from them. Studios are giving the green light to more sports pictures: Angels in the Outfield and Little Big League are scheduled for summer release; the Steven Spielberg production Little Heroes, about kids' football, is due out in the fall. To the lords of Hollywood, the lesson is plain. "Mass audiences are looking to feel good," says Joe Roth, who runs a production unit at Disney. "When teams win in these movies, you feel good that you've participated. They are very easy vehicles...