Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with particular aptness to this fitfully entertaining attempt to replicate what is alleged to be the largest-grossing foreign film in U.S. movie history. For La Cage aux Folles II makes it clear that the sheer novelty of the original-no one had thought to make a humane and sweet-spirited domestic comedy about a longstanding homosexual relationship-was responsible for much of its success. One flies away from the new Cage feeling that familiarity breeds, in this case, nothing more than empty farce, laughter without an afterlife...
From the porch of the bungalow Franz could watch the waves roll in. The palms were bending in the soft steady wind and the air was redolent with a sweet blend of fruit and sea. Franz felt as if he had been rescued from the real world...
...court press proved so effective the hoopsters left it on all game and racked up the points as a hapless Big Red squad could only gasp and wheeze with indignation. The cagers, who received the same treatment earlier in the year from nationally ranked Minnesota, must have experienced the sweet sensation of revenge...
Except at Easter, when they cling glutinously to countless baskets of green plastic grass, jelly beans have never ranked high in the American sweet-tooth sweepstakes. Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in the court of France's Louis XIV.* Jelly bean consumption is jumping, not only in the capital but throughout the rest of the country as well...
...Irish playwright, almost blind, appears in his shabby, shadowy room, warmed by a dark red blanket, looking like some sort of sweet yet cranky prince of the mind and spirit. On the basis of his memoirs, that is just what Gjon Mili appears...