Word: joyful
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...participated in the women’s 400 meter hurdles in this summer’s Olympic Games. As an athlete the current focus on eliminating drugs from sports is utterly embraced and yet wholly wearisome. The joy for me is that catching the cheaters will ensure that the playing field will be just a little more level. However, a great deal of focus on a few athletes’ ability to take advantage of the system undermines the accomplishments of clean athletes—whose hard work and steadfast discipline yield substantial performance improvements. Although the U.S. Anti-Doping...
...greatest joy of the exhibition?and what sets it apart from more standard museum displays of Japanese masterpieces?is the chance to view the art in the environment for which it was created. This setting gives an added richness to many of the pieces. In one Okyo painting of a waterfall, the water flows from the top right of one wall to the bottom left. But the viewer can't help noticing that the bottom left margin of the painting, where the water finally runs still, aligns perfectly with the waterline of a pond just across the walkway outside, suggesting...
...album pounds away with track after track of similar glee, mixing the melodies but keeping the attitude, never resorting to a schlocky ballad or any other break from the frantic pace. Lyrics tell of boys that come and go, but their lyrics of love and loss, pain and joy rarely come to the forefront: A deliberate move, apparently, on an album that relies instead on spiky hooks and sugary harmonies, Casio keyboards and above all, never-flagging energy...
...player, but mostly, I believe, because “Rondell” means hockey puck in French. But when Rondell would hit one and Expos announcer Rodger Brullote would shout “Bonsoir, elle est partie! Ronnnndelll! Ronnnndelll!!!” real baseball fans, like myself, jumped with joy...
...despair is a little over-the-top, but she has heard the same cries from others. Cereal is the one beacon of hope lying between you and that pathetic food in the vat before you. It’s purpose? That you may have one moment of dietary joy to light up your ever-so-banal existence...