Word: joie
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...organ-transplant nurse played by Cecilia Roth (a luminary of the foreign film industry, with an uncanny ability to evoke tears) sits watching All About Eve with her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Esteban is turning 17 the next day, and his eyes seem bright with literary genius and joie d'vivre. The relationship between mother and son is close, with Manuela and Esteban joking about sex and exchanging intellectual banter...
Cary, the motel handyman and champion underachiever who was arrested at a nudist colony, said in a jailhouse interview that voices told him to kill Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso in February and Joie Armstrong just two weeks ago. That he had fantasized about killing women since the age of 7. That they ought to make a movie about him, same as his famous brother. A movie about a would-be artist who became a serial killer, torching two of his victims and decapitating another...
...which has not done its finest work in the case, got blistered by critics last week for dismissing Stayner as a suspect and blithely announcing that men already in custody on unrelated charges were responsible for the Sund-Pelosso murders. A few weeks after that announcement, Joie Armstrong was dead, Cary Stayner was in jail, and the feds were finally connecting the dots...
Unlike other Harvard Square musicians, Diegodoesn't consider the Square his home, but rather astop on his world tour. Born in Haiti, he roamsthe globe spreading his music and joie de vivreyear round. "Oh, Canada, Europe, and now here Iam," he chuckles, "I mean, when people used to sayto me, `Where do you live, where do you comefrom?' and I always say to them, `I'm from earth.'Where do you live, I live on earth. I don't havejust one place...
...gait/ Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite so enchanting a subject as either the joie de vivre of L'Allegro or the melancholic beauty of Il Penseroso. Nor could any claim that Jennens' verse stands quite equal to the Milton it seeks to reprove. Though the music is still lovely, the final reprimand of Il Moderato seems hardly the proper note on which...