Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degrees fever.) The charmer was petite Midori Ito of Japan, only 18, who entranced the audience with her powerhouse jumps and girlish enthusiasm. As she concluded her routine with a gravity-defying triple Lutz, Ito shook her fists triumphantly above her head and burst into unabashed tears of delight. Though she finished fifth, Ito received a standing ovation -- something Witt did not earn...
Best ECAC Town: Vermont. Burlington is a yuppie's delight. The streets are clean. The cars are clean. The people look clean. Rumor has it that Mr. Clean lives in a cottage off Lake Champlain...
Doctors who specialize in treating old people delight in telling the story of a 90-year-old man named Morris who has a complaint about his left knee. Says his exasperated physician: "For heaven's sake, at your age what do you expect?" Rejoins Morris feistily: "Now look here, Doc, my right knee is also 90, and it doesn't hurt." It is an apocryphal tale with a pointed message. As long as anyone can remember, old age and disability have been paired as naturally and inevitably as the horse and carriage or death and taxes. After all, advancing years...
...Gang's New Threads is a rapper's delight, but neophytes will enjoy it as well. It raps to an infectious beat and is certain to wrap up the audience with...
...monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved friend." In the same speech he characterized a planned Mies van der Rohe office building in London's financial district as a "glass stump." Opening a factory last May, he likened the new building to a Victorian prison -- to the delight of the workers, if not of management. But last week Prince Charles swapped his sniper's rifle for a shotgun and took his broadest aim yet at Britain's architects and planners. The charge: destroying London's historic skyline...