Word: joying
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...catch a lecture by Blum if he returns to campus this year. While a number of the pieces found their inspiration in international politics, many of the works in “The Grande Promenade” took an entirely apolitical approach and instead highlighted the whimsy and joy that can present itself in contemporary art. Perhaps most representative of this are the works done by the “Neensters”—a self-described “still-undefined generation of visual artists,” lead by Greek artists Andreas Angelidakis, Miltos Manetas...
...live alone. I don't have a partner. If you had told me 10 years ago that I'd be okay with that insecurity, I don't know that I would have believed you. But being free and independent, as much as it terrifies me, there's such a joy...
...don’t have to do any of the work yourself! And though you may have missed these gems this summer, they’re sure to be back soon. So next time you get a chance, be sure to sit back, relax, and savor the joy that is watching other people……Tear apart their curtains and rummage through garbage in hopes of creating the next big trend. Carry on, “Project Runway.” Bravo’s fashion design competition gave all of us a new reason to live...
...intense it seems like a bright boy's first passion at discovering the worlds in words - the alternate, funhouse universes that language could create. Sometimes that ardor lasts a lifetime; it did for Joyce and Nabokov. Not that Idle is at their rarefied level, but his word-joy was from the beginning, and remains, infectious...
...moods fluctuated between anger and joy, frustration and triumph. But a feeling of melancholy prevailed as I came face to face with the larger tragedy beyond my own: stolen youth. Specialist Hilario Bermanis, 21, had been built like a fullback when he left his home in Micronesia to join the Army. Now he was hunched in a wheelchair, a thick neck and broad shoulders the only reminder of his once muscular body. He had lost his left hand and both legs above the knee to a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad...