Eva referred to the day she met her future husband as her "marvelous day".
Laura's character, for example, would recognize the lonely daydreamer that Ms. Christian played in Mr. Safer's marvelous "Five Days in March 201010).
According to his hint at 68 Across, the word DAY can follow the first part or precede the second part, giving us the marvelous band GREEN DAY and DAYLIGHT.
This is an issue that has dominated America's pastime, baseball, which celebrated one of those marvelous rituals, opening day, last week.
"Before, authors were doing the Jewish book fairs a favor," said the children's book author Judith Viorst, who presented her forthcoming "Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days".
No less an observer than Vin Scully watched the Mets fumble away Monday's game and chortled that the Mets had reverted to the bad old days of Marvelous Marv Throneberry.
"No matter how washable such materials claim to be, I don't intend to check out those claims in my house," she writes in her new book, "Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days," (Free Press) a nonfiction diary for grown-ups that recounts the story of that tumultuous visit.
Then, just months after Alexander and his family of five moved out, a fourth Alexander book came out, Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days.
Four shows opened in the last few days: a marvelous Shakespeare revival with a big Hollywood star (Al Pacino), a sweet movie turned into a heavy-handed musical, a show about a theatrical producer trying to land a big Hollywood star and some campy fluff.
Still, there is another survivor of the Bronx of those days: Mr. Kirk's marvelous photographs.
"Pamela Harriman was always telling me how marvelous the Riviera was in its golden days before the tourists, like myself I suppose, discovered it," Mrs. Lawrence said.
