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...simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall, has been dying for two decades -- "real slow," Bessie explains with a hint of asperity, "so I don't miss anything." He still chortles in glee on seeing beams of light bounce off a hand-held mirror and play around the room. Bessie's sister, told she cannot smoke in a hospital, replies with steely illogic, "I'll be very quiet, then," and lights up. The daffy aunt, addicted to a soap opera, dresses to the nines...
...gladness would promptly be moved up to glee...
...reasons these events and figures attract so much attention is that they lend themselves to all sorts of gossipy and hand-wringing speculation. But this glee is so far from the heart and the truth of these occurrences. People like Walter Goodman focus so much on the "glamour" of the event that the agony of the alleged victim is completely passed over...
...instructions to his staff: Don't spook the scenario. Don't say anything that might encourage the Republicans to select someone else. Today, as Democrats around the country salivate at the possibility of New York Governor Mario Cuomo heading their 1992 ticket, George Bush's aides cannot contain their glee. "What a simple campaign it would be," says Rich Bond, the Bush adviser who knows Cuomo best. "Roger Ailes already has the TV spots conceived. Pictures of decaying streets; rotting buildings and homeless people everywhere; clips of Mario's well-known testiness and bullying; voiceovers talking about New York...
Isaacs, who has sung with the Harvard University Morning Choir, the Glee Club and the Collegium Musicum, is well qualified to conduct this sort of study, said his thesis advisor John D. Stewart, a senior preceptor in music...