Word: joy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whereas we have been delightfully informed with the pleasant news of the arrival of the fourth bundle of joy at the Capuano household...someday, little brother will be the mayor of our great city...
...prophecy of that Somerville alderperson did not go far enough. For the "fourth bundle of joy," young Michael E. Capuano, would eventually be more than a mayor...
These anecdotes are indications that the apocalypse is upon us. Technology has always palpably changed human relationships, for better and for worse. We can imagine the closeness and joy an elderly Eastern European babushka must have felt in the early 20th century when she used a telephone for the first time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax...
...people who witnessed the show could argue with the fact that the numbers from When I Woke, Rusted Root's first LP, brought out more joy and enthusiasm than anything else that night. "Virtual Reality," from the album Remember and the soundtrack to the movie Twister, got the crowd moving as the first song of the evening, but the slower, funkier rhythms of "Cat Turned Blue" from When I Woke elicited a lot more screams of approval and subsequent groovings. "Laugh as the Sun," the deliciously hypnotic song that followed, proved a little too intense to dance to, but that...
...opening guitar riffs. The crowd, quite simply, went wild. The energy practically shot through the roof--suddenly jocks in baseball caps, hemp-wearing, adolescents and men with very long bears were jumping up and down in gleeful unison. Glabicki and the rest of the band slowed down the joy by receding into the darker chords from "Laugh as the Sun," and built up suspense until everything exploded back into the blinding sunnyness of "Martyr" with an almost orgasmic cry of, "Hey!" Although the rest of the evening paled in comparison, the crowd stayed in a blissful state of afterglow...