Word: joy
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...mixed in), have gathered to catch a glimpse of the latest heartthrob, their corazon. The fans at the front of the line enter the store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What...
...fate awaits the Limbertwig apple, the red abalone and the Southern field pea, but their plight, happily, has not gone unnoticed. They are among 15 American products selected to enter the Ark of Taste, an endangered-species list of edibles established by Slow Food, an organization dedicated to returning joy to the table by shunning mass-manufactured products and promoting food awareness. The Ark spotlights these endangered products, not so people will avoid them but rather so more will consume them. Already this gourmet prod to the marketplace has helped revive such delicacies as Bagoss cheese, made from the milk...
...Irony," Andersen writes at one point, "is now embedded in the language, ubiquitous and invisible." He's right, of course, and his own ironic take sometimes makes him seem so arch you could almost drive through him. But it is nonetheless a joy to watch him at work, ricocheting off everything putrid and tinny in our culture. Whatever you call the thing after postmodern, Turn of the Century is it--something post-postmodern, a commentary on commentary. That may not make much of a novel, but it sure is fun to read...
Barkley said her students claim that she "made the dreadful prospect of the pre-1800 requirement for English concentrators a true joy...
William Butler Yeats famously wrote that "The fascination of what's difficult/Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent/Spontaneous joy and natural content/Out of my heart." Winning a Hoopes Prize or landing a killer job is difficult, hence in part its fascination. Toilet ball, by comparison, is easy. There is no minor league of toilet ball, no farm team where you struggle for years before you make the big time. There are no screaming fans either. When you walk on to the playing field for the first time, you're the equal of every toilet ball player that...