Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
Hurrah for Mary Bunting! What a joy to find an educated woman who advocates no such radical goals as women in politics or big business careers but motherhood with some objective beyond diapers and rectal thermometers. Where do young mothers with fresh ideas and a desire to do something challenging go to register...
...vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
...Lost Souls. But the bulk of Girodias' list consists of such works as Who Pushed Paula?, by "Akbar del Piombo," Houses of Joy, by "Wu Wu Meng," and Until She Screams, by "Faustino Perez." Girodias pays about $1,000 a book and chooses the pseudonyms himself-"Otherwise, they always pick something like J. Walter Thompson." He prints 5,000 copies of each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France...
...leaves fall. Let the skies be gray. Let the hour exams press on relentlessly. We care not, for it is Christmas in Harvard Square, and the merchants of Cambridge, bless them, have made joy and good spirits the order...