Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife falls by the trailside, he will leave her to die, then grumble if someone else robs the body first. The old, weak or blind will be tripped, pushed off balance, and at the last ignored as though dead while still alive. "Misfortune of others was their greatest joy," says Turnbull. "There is no goodness left for the Ik, only a full stomach...
...first cut on John Simon's Album typifies his inventiveness: "The Song of the Elves" asserts the stature of playful but proud elves whose joy, warmth, and earthiness mocks the war-tom world of people. "Faiderol," they chant. "Elves are tell." "Nobody knows" and "Rain Song" are as lonely as the first song is light. "Don't Forget what I Told You" offers a strange blend of romance and cynicism balancing the outright fun of "Motorcycle Man" or of "Railroad Train Runnin' Up My Back." While weaving his voice in and out among tracks of piano and backup instruments. Simon...
...singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds. "Joy to the World" Wraps a story of Christmas loneliness around the theme of the original holiday carol; Simon sings of his missing lover: "Away in a manger in some hotel she lays her head. The carolers are gone...
...evening bereft of joy. Early returns showed its candidate running behind in areas where he had assumed widespread support, and its enthusiasm, dampened by the inauspiciousness of the early returns, ebbed steadily as the evening wore on. Kerry remained in seclusion most of the night and his absence heightened the anxieties of his supporters. He did not appear until 1:30 a.m. and then only to give a last-gasp, don't-give-up-the-ship statement. Kerry was reserved and grave in his remarks. "It's a very, very close election, he said. There was no sign of encouragement...
Born. To Diana Ross, 28, former lead singer of Motown's Supremes, now starring in the Billie Holiday movie biography, Lady Sings the Blues, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 28, Los Angeles public relations executive: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracee Joy...