Word: joying
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...Twenty years ago, Jackson was concluding one of the hottest decades enjoyed by any star in any medium. Twenty years before that, he was a magic child, the Prince of Pop. It would be a blessing if he could be remembered for the joy he engendered and the musical kingdom he created and - if we see that last rehearsal tape - the artist he was about to prove he still could...
General Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State "ABC" The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now. It was the early '70s, a time of war, a time of political turmoil, a time of the counterculture and domestic unrest. They made us smile with their freshness and their cute 'fros. We tapped our feet, felt good watching them, and our cares left for a few minutes...
...last week, however, Bed Bath & Beyond announced results that actually exceeded the expectations of Wall Street analysts, an all-too-rare event in the retail world. The retailer's profits rose 13.5% for the first quarter. While same-store sales still declined 1.6% - no reason to be jumping for joy in the aisles - many analysts figured the fall would be much worse, in the 4% range. What does Bed Bath & Beyond's improvement say about the state of the consumer psyche? If shoppers are more willing to spend their money on discretionary items like cushioned bath mats and $17 iced...
...another. You already feel the rising backlash against hyper-parenting; I suspect the less possessive we are, the less obsessive we'll be. I write this as one who always knew that my husband would be the better parent of the two of us, able to slide, with joy and mischief, into our children's world rather than drag them prematurely into ours. On this Father's Day, the nicest thing anyone could say to me? That I've been a good...
...Ferrah Leni Fawcett (her first name a variation on the Arabic word for joy) was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Voted Best Looking at her high school, she studied microbiology, then art, at the University of Texas, Austin. In Hollywood she got her first big role in the calamitous 1970 satire Myra Breckinridge, escaping unscathed and, for the most part, unnoticed. Until she was signed in 1976 for the ABC series Charlie's Angels, Fawcett was most visible as an icon of TV commercials: she made the Mercury Cougar pant and gave extra body to Wella Balsam shampoo...