Word: joyful
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...Coyote Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, is a world where people search to create their own destinies out of the shards of the civilization left behind and the pitiful results of past human choices. In the preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg claims that he "finds the joy of life in its violent and cruel struggles," and Miss Julie portrays a struggle in perhaps the most violent tradition of the 1880s: the heartless struggle between the classes...
However, there can come a point when daily actions, though essential, seem far from why you initially became committed to a cause. Although each phone call has value, you make the tenth call out of a sense of obligation rather than because it brings great personal joy; your voice, against your will, reveals the loss in enthusiasm as the night continues...
...pride and joy, however, is my virtual Anita. From the moment I selected her sporty outfit and made her just a tad neater and friendlier than the real me, I knew we were soul mates. I spent hours fretting over the floor plan for her house, picking the blue tile for the bathroom and ecru wallpaper for the kitchen. After a high-paid but short-lived stint as a lobbyist--a job I found in the simulated morning paper one day--I could even afford to spoil myself with a swimming pool in the backyard, an oil painting...
...Tofu.com. I would promote the world of soy products. The joy...
That contradiction is not lost on Hollywood. "Porcelain isn't fine enough to describe how fragile she is," says director Philip Noyce, who nevertheless cast her as a feisty policewoman opposite Denzel Washington in last fall's hit thriller The Bone Collector. "She's not burned out with the joy of performing. She's in her element because she can set parameters for a character, whereas I suspect she doesn't know her own boundaries emotionally and physically. I suspect she's happiest when she's not being Angelina Jolie...