Word: joie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss built his operetta around the flimsiest of comic opera conventions, but it's loved nonetheless for its infectious waltzes. No matter what performers do to this durable music, it will intoxicate listeners. Lowell's Fledermaus refuses to take Strauss's joie-devivre seriously--which is no sin in itself--but director J. Scott Brumit fails to provide a substitute, leaving the show to wander in a wasteland of farce, sarcasm, and tastelessness...
...media event was over. That night they would open the Southeastern Fair amid Joie Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning...
Nasser died without ever experiencing joie de vivre. Anxiety gnawed continually at his heart, as he regarded everybody with suspicion, whatever a man's real position was. It was only natural, therefore, that Nasser should bequeath a legacy of suspicion and alertness. It wasn't easy for Nasser to have anybody for his friend, in the full sense of the term, because of his tendency to be wary, suspicious, extremely bitter, and highly strung. By this I do not mean, however, that Nasser lacked all sense of loyalty; on the contrary, I mean to point out his sharpness...
...brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from the '40s and '50s: that these paintings do not al ways prove their necessity, and their joie de vivre comes close to rodomontade. But his defects are still those of a major artist, and against them must be set the fact, which every part of the show proclaims, of de Kooning's large and affirmative ambitions. Here entropy, the normal condition of the art world today...
...fervent believers in republican principles of equality. But that does not mean that their friends in the chorus, when dressed alike, have to act alike too. Shipley J. Munson and Jane Gitschier are consistent exceptions--the former by his air of zany snootiness, the latter by her charming joie de vivre...