Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without a line to mar her fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington, and he saw how lonely I was in Hollywood. I'd never wanted to be in show business...
...that is still changing the way Americans see many of their most basic institutions -- family, church, schools, the military, media and culture, among them. A group long dismissed as deviant or perverted or simply beneath mention has been able to claim a sizable space in national life, to the joy of its members and the continuing consternation of many fellow citizens. Declaring oneself to be gay is no longer an automatic admission that psychotherapy is needed or an abandonment of all hopes for family and career. Increasingly, especially for young Americans, it is seen as a straightforward matter of self...
Stanley Cup Joy and Outrage
...whole populations locked away from the world. Freely elected governments are in office, and the free market is starting to take hold. At long last, East Europeans are looking forward to the kind of material prosperity that the West has known for decades. This should be a time of joy in the East, an era of good health, optimism and babies...
...held to his youth. In Blue Remembered Hills he re-created his West Country childhood (but with adult actors as the kids). He larded his breakthrough series, Pennies from Heaven, with sentimental tunes from his '30s infancy. "Childhood," Potter said, "is full to the brim with fear, horror, excitement, joy, boredom, love, anxiety." He was welcome to cherish his youth; he never got to savor...