Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convincing when she evokes the fire and flood of up-tempo gospel numbers. But she is no blues singer. When neither love nor liquor could quench Bessie's misery, her harsh sounds of loneliness could bring an entire audience to tears. Bessie sang from pain, Linda sings from joy. She cannot crush her optimism. Hopkins ain't Bessie, it is true. She is, nonetheless, a champ...
...takes you," says Clarence demons. "It's like total surrender to him." A Springsteen set is raucous, poignant, brazen. It is clear that he gets off on the show as much as the audience, which is one reason why a typical gig lasts over two hours. The joy is infectious and self-fulfilling. "This music is forever for me," Springsteen says. "It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live...
...Kicking has always been the greatest joy of my life," McInally says. "I'd put it a little ahead of Henry Miller, but not ahead of the finer things in life he tends to treat...
...seriously is my old alma mater, Newsweek," Karl says a little huffily. The Newsweek review, which did not mention Fleming's former connection with the magazine, called the book "about as interesting--and titillating--as a protracted Merv Griffin show: 319 pages that manage to take most of the joy out of voyeurism...
BOOKS. The fugitives' library of more than 150 volumes ranged from textbooks on explosives to Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer and Joy of Cooking...