Word: joyfully
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...people walking as a ghost,” she says. “They have no joy...
...conscious being. It will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision, both before and for many years afterwards. Yet, for many reasons, they simply cannot have a child. To bring such a child into the world—a world which, at present, cannot support it?...
...motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the deepest empathy. That?s why, to many people, the most romantic film couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range of intimacies in a love affair. And it was surpassingly beautiful, enthralling, to watch...
...lost his knack and clout in Hollywood; and the genre he loved disappeared. So I?d like to think that achieving the nonchalant masterpiece of "Singin? in the Rain" - a greatness that, for once in his career, never revealed whatever agony went into it - gave Kelly immediate and sustaining joy. At one of the many tributes he received late in his life, he said of his life on the screen: "That?s what you do up there. You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams...
...there another Kelly out there, who might with the slightest encouragement bring that love of creation, that joy of motion, those dreams and ambitions back to Hollywood? Will the movies ever revive this primal pleasure. Come on with it. Somebody?s gotta shout, "Got-ta dance...