Word: joviality
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...Four's musical evolution. However, in other areas XTC's songs sound entirely fresh and vibrant. "Your Dictionary" has an ominous underlying piano part that gives way to sleigh bells and picture-perfect harmonies. The pastoral-like "Greenman" wouldn't be out of place at a jovial medieval formal dance, and "Fruit Nut" has an organ background that sounds like the theme music from a TV show on Nickelodeon. Apple Venus Vol.1 is a masterpiece of beautiful, engaging pop music. Perfect harmonies and lushly orchestrated songs promise to bring listeners to new levels of XTC. Annie K. Zaleski
...wise move, she now says. After Cindy told her daughter about the rape, the young woman wrote, in her swirly cursive, an oddly jovial response, "Hi, how's everything going?" She said she was glad to learn "about my father's situation"--the only reference to the rape--and wanted to know how to find him. Cindy was horrified. Her daughter obviously hadn't grasped her pain, the nightmares--her whole life. The daughter, with the help of her adoptive mother, persisted in trying to find her father, a man Cindy had helped send to prison. Fearing he might find...
Colescott's presentation was altogether jovial and comical, so much so that it was misleading. His discussion was so entertaining and his personality so appealing that his friendly manner often served to obscure some incredibly disturbing and offensive ideas he related. He remarked that his goal in art was to "make things which are both beautiful and have a message. Those things are often seen to be contradictory but that's what I like to do." But prior to making that statement, Colescott had defended his controversial George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware by saying, "People thought I was some...
...turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it's still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work. "Even my kids notice the difference," she says. "I'm back to my jovial self...
...Austin themselves each shared their enthusiasm for the occasion; Austin reflected the jovial atmosphere by recounting a phone conversation with an elderly woman who called her when the appointment was announced. After expressing some shock at how far Harvard had come to be able to appoint "Lady Masters," the woman on the phone concluded with, "You go, girl...