Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viciousness that women get as routine. It is like being gang-banged in public. But it has been worth it because of something great out there, not just the pain and anger. Women are learning to respect and love themselves and each other, and there is a lot of joy and communion in knowing them...
...Biello, these awards just supplement the original joy he obtains from wrestling. He was one of the first out for practice this fall, and is still going strong. This week he is Harvard's only representative at the NCAA's in Maryland, and he plans to continue wrestling for most of the spring...
...Tropic of Cancer, his first published work, was a shout of exultation. Miller, emerging free from the shackles of superfluous duties to society, was suddenly beset by a tremendous hunger for the sensuous life available in Paris. His book asserted the joy of the present and laid the foundation for a lifelong detachment from the ruin of a material universe, a spiritual self-sufficiency which bordered on solipsism...
...addressed itself, as his paintings did, to the classic themes of the erect or reclining figure, the portrait and the nude. But only a few early modern sculptors - Rodin, Bourdelle and Degas in old age - achieved the same vitality of surface and gesture. One can hardly imagine more joy communicated by the act of squeezing clay, and though Matisse's sculpture has had little effect on later artists, it still remains an exquisite testament to the douceur de vivre that he strove all his life to bring into form...
Director-Scenarist Anthony Friedman has modernized the story and transposed it from New York to London, which works, and played much of it for comedy, which doesn't. Scofield is elegant, a joy to watch, and he saves the film. But John McEnery has been directed to play Bartleby less as a ci pher than as a dogged straight...