Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic electricity in a finger snap to have prevented the Great Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable nowadays as jolly...
...legislature greeted Lurleen's-or George's-speech with joyous Rebel whoops and will doubtless give her whatever she requests, including an expanded state police force. Thus Alabama may well be inviting a confrontation between federal and state authority, comparable to those at Little Rock and Oxford, Miss. The Wallaces, with George's third-party presidential candidacy firmly in mind, clearly would like nothing better...
...communicable crush on life. She's got a lean, almost Twiggy figure, long arms, and a lilting voice. More of a pop than a jazz singer, she goes against all cabaret conventions. She opens with downbeat tunes such as I'm All Smiles, and then follows with joyous ballads - Let Your self Go, Nothing Can Stop Me Now, Sunny - achieving an intense dramatic vocal projection that plays an audience much as Streisand does...
...Russian dancers performed in Paris from 1895 to 1909, he relished the contrast between the unbridled brilliance of their national costume and their rigorous enmeshment in the dance, using the full richness of his palette to capture the barbaric richness of the dancers' native dress and the joyous swirl of their steps. And, as Degas mastered the art of portraying dancers, he eventually developed a prickly affection for them. "There's something artificial even about my heart," he confessed. "The dancers have sewn it up in a bag made of pink satin, rather faded pink satin, like their...
...breathes and says to the world, T'm here,' there's something quite cosmic about it. We're all here. All in harmony. Only the chords are different. I play about the unity of everything. The love, the totality-like bringing everyone together in a joyous dance. I play love vibrations...