Word: joyful
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...makes liberal use of fictionalizing devices - interior monologues, imagined conversations - that render it less reliable as a historical account, but help to capture the drama of Bikila's life. It's hard to read Rambali's well-paced description of the Rome race without a rush of excitement and joy...
...brook any suggestion that Anne Dunne was other than a brave soul who endured a myriad of hardships while at the female factory in the settlement of Parramatta, now a commercial center in western Sydney. Dunne eventually married a lifer named James Tompkins and experienced, Upfold speculates, times of joy in a land where she chose to live out her post-convict years. "In life, you've got to go forward," Upfold says...
...creation, all that was missing was Moore, who has sworn off Hollywood adaptations of his comics since his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen flopped as a film in 2003. "I see there is an elephant in the room," said Gibbons. "I wish Alan could feel the same excitement and joy I'm feeling. I wish he hadn't had such a bad experience in the past...
...decades. There is more to governing than making good speeches. William L. Aumic Guilderland, N.Y. The caricature on the cover does not befit Cuomo and misses completely his sense of caring, his warmth and charm. Carolyne Chirichello Santa Cruz, Calif. Your cover illustration of Cuomo was a joy to behold. Al Hirschfeld has been doing those fabulous line drawings since the George M. Cohan days. And, as is his tradition, he even hid his daughter Nina's name in the Governor's hair. Robert C. Southee Chief, Design and Graphics Division U.S. Department of Commerce Washington
...desperately needed a heart transplant. A spokeswoman for the hospital got on the line and was persuaded to reveal the impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went wild. For a moment it seemed that television itself had brought about this triumphant turn of events. And in a way, it had. A week earlier the case of Baby Jesse had become a cause celebre, when officials at Loma Linda University Medical Center...