Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...time of lights, yes, but also of sounds-sounds that flood in to reassure and delight. Outdoors, bells ringing in church steeples and in the hands of Volunteers of America Santas, organ music at skating rinks, the slash of sharp blades on crisp ice. At home, crackling fires and, if it has snowed, the stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week...
...everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still...
...surprised you devoted so much space to the anguish of the inept fraternity of pollsters [Dec. 11. When will these snoopers wise up to the fact that it is nobody's business how a person intends to vote? Many of us delight in never giving a pollster a straight answer...
When I first visited Plains, Ga., in December 1976, a month after Jimmy Carter's election, the town was buoyed up by various brands of delight-a native son's handmade personal triumph, the daily spectacle of famous TV news faces bolting along the quarter-mile street between Jimmy's house and the heart of downtown, the onset of Christmas...
Considered as a group, Reagan's Cabinet selections are dominated by solid conservatives who are respected more for their accomplishments than their ideologies. The President-elect seems to be trying to assemble a team that would please, if not delight, both the party's moderates and its right-wingers. But the struggle to find the right mix - and men who could accept the jobs - was the first patch of trouble that the Californian has encountered since his surge to win the election. Ronald Reagan got a whiff last week of what life in Washington will be like...