Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scene I: The Pure Joy Toy Factory, located somewhere in the Third World. It is dawn, and the children are marching in to begin the day shift, singing "Hi ho, hi ho, It's off to the multinational workplace we go!/ Oh it's joy, joy, joy, to make a first-class toy/ For some lucky girl or boy/ Who can play, play, play/ All the livelong...
Enter Cruella, branch manager of Pure Joy Toy, wearing a gray cashmere business suit accessorized with a tasteful black riding crop. "Good news, children!" she announces in a voice that lets you know she's had her usual breakfast of boiled bunnies and Dalmatian pups. "Thanks to the upsurge of consumer confidence this Christmas season, I'm able to offer you unlimited forced overtime right through Christmas Eve! And to make it easier for you to focus on the task at hand, all exits and rest rooms will be locked for the duration!" As she leaves, we hear locks clanking...
Tens of thousands of students, intellectuals and elderly citizens had poured into the streets of downtown Belgrade to celebrate their election victory when, on Nov. 21, the court rulings turned their joy to outrage. In an afternoon ritual that showed no sign of abating, they pelted Milosevic's ministries with snowballs, eggs and paper airplanes while serenading his government's empty office windows with catcalls, whistles, kazoos and jeers. Prominent among them was Djindjic, 44, his charisma, intellect and charm suddenly allowed full play in what had become not only a Serbian theater but also a world forum. Foreigners were...
...most ways The Preacher's Wife is as traditional a Christmas confection as fossilized fruitcake. It has a big budget, big stars and a heartwarming rendition of Joy to the World. The songs are sung by diva Whitney Houston, who plays the wife of a disillusioned minister. Her co-star, Denzel Washington, is a sexy angel who wants to save Houston's neighborhood church as well as her troubled marriage. On paper, the movie looks as if it has all the ingredients for a box-office slam dunk. But there's one thing missing: white people...
...joy, it is once again the Christmas season. I've brought out the (on-line) Advent calendar. I've annoyed my downstairs neighbors by jigging to "Christmas in Kilarney" (it's a reasonably authentic rendition, too). I've gone Christmas shopping...