Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...canvas plane once guarded against outside referentiality has been invaded by metaphor, narrative, and gleeful appropriation of historical styles,” Kertess writes in the show’s description. And so Kertess uses the paintings of Carroll Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...
...respected role model in his business. The Chandra Levy case is quickly becoming to Larry King what O.J. was—and still is—to Geraldo Rivera. Just last year, Larry King would have been excited to interview President Clinton. Come September, however, he is satisfied, even gleeful, to interview Gary Condit’s son. And this is a full four months after Chandra disappeared. When he is not landing these “major” interviews, King makes do with his regular Chandra Levy panel which, as far as I can tell, is made...
...them; images and melodies twirl around in tiny zephyrs of sound. Twisted (Never Again) sounds like echoes from a carnival, with spinning ferris-wheel-like choruses and offbeat funhouse instrumentation. On the bluesy I Can't Lie, Seger lets herself go, howling some of the final lines with a gleeful abandon that evokes a carefree Janis Joplin...
...national networks and cable channels were solemn in their coverage of the execution. Relatives of the victims who were interviewed were not gleeful or even satisfied, they seemed merely resigned. For them, it was just another way-station in their grieving...
...venerable elms and the moonlight gurgling of the Charles River sweeping under the Weeks Footbridge. They can be found on the Quad’s grassy lawn, where the scampering of squirrels is chased a second later by the barking of a dog and, just slightly later, the gleeful squeal of a small child. Spring sounds invigorate the spirit, a heartening departure from winter’s solemn silence...