"I ruled against the Government in favor of the porpoise," he recalled gleefully.

"We had to go formal, so makeup people did everyone's hair and makeup," Mr. King recalled gleefully.

"I was taken down by a truck once," he recalled gleefully.

"I ended up selling him everything," she recalls gleefully.

He also gleefully recalled his involvement in the destruction of Warsaw's Great Synagogue:

Then, Jamie recalls gleefully, her mother posed the right question: "A dog?"

"When I got the part, you could hardly keep me from flying off the ground," Kim gleefully recalled.

"There were soldiers shouting, helicopters circling," Sharon recalled gleefully, like a teen-ager describing a clever prank.

"The Italian newspapers covered it for three days," Mrs. Duchin recalled gleefully.

Anthony Wood gleefully recalls this.