Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRINCETON, N.J.--Princeton University Stadium, constructed last year to replace its decrepit, 84-year-old predecessor, is with good reason the pride and joy of Old Nassau this season...
Harvard ran out the clock to seal the win, andjunior quarterback Rich Linden turned to thesideline and pumped his first in joy as histeammates mobbed him. Linden, who had struggled inthe first five games of the season, finally lookedlike the quarterback of last year and finished15-of-28 for 186 yards and two touchdowns...
...lectern as he always did, writing on a summer night with the moths at the window, then looking at his son Dmitri, whom he had saved from the Nazis in his own flight from wartime France, whose future he foresaw, whose childhood he shaped into a memory of joy. Then, blinded by tears at his own creation, the great Russian humanist rescues his Krug, since David's death is not to be borne...
...decorators make notes and exchange harried glances, but Wynn is already off, heading for his pride and joy, the Picasso restaurant. Today the Picassos--nine paintings, plus several dozen of the thousands of plates that the old demon gouged and scribbled into existence--are to be hung. The room is an expansive stage designer's version of a renovated Provencal farmhouse, only brand-new, and with touches not found on the Cote d'Azur, such as a carpet by Claude Picasso and a ceiling in the entrance hall thickly lined with broken amphorae brought in from Mexico. The paintings--still...
This Pleasantville, this Bedford Falls, this Brigadoon, this Springfield, you see, is really Stepford--a place so sanitized there are no toilets or double beds, a people so insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like...