Word: joyouse
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...This should be a joyous day," he wrote. "I know Marilyn's eyes lit up when I told her. I know they certainly do look lovely...
...every joyous Nader loyalist, there are several fuming Democrats. As the recount began in Florida's bitterly contested presidential race, faithful Dems were pointing angrily to Nader's 97,000 votes, 10 percent of which would have pushed the Sunshine State into Gore's column. In Oregon, where the race remains too close to call, Nader is also expected to pull in a healthy vote count - numbers that could certainly have saved the state for the Democrats, if Nader had not been a factor...
...Carmichael, leave hardscrabble lives in Paris to attend a posthumous tribute in Brooklyn to his grandfather (and her former intime). In the 1950s, Sonny's grandfather found fame and temporary refuge from racism playing jazz in France; finally his hometown is giving him his due. But instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place...
...Every Sonny Rollins album contains the obligatory calypso number and this album opens with an original titled "Salvador." Though entertaining, this piece lacks some of the joyous swagger associated with Rollins' other Caribbean interpretations. Rollins digs marginally further into his improvisatory bag on the two other originals, the funk-infused "Did You See Harold Vick?" and the slow blues "Charles M." to greater effect. Just as in his live performances, the standout sideman on this album is pianist Stephen Scott. The vibrancy of Scott's solos safeguard the moderate pace of the album from becoming sluggish. His swinging, soulful contribution...
...demanding to join the club, the hip-hop kids created their own. And once they'd built it, Whitey came, desperately seeking access to the "cool" that, as Norman Mailer famously noted, has in postwar urban America been inexorably associated with blackness. What had started out simply as a joyous culture of black self-expression for a new generation eventually came to dominate the American cultural landscape. Will Smith may today be one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men, but a few short years ago he was simply Philadelphia's ranking rapper, aka The Fresh Prince. And could...