Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted home in the Oklahoma flatlands furnishes a trip down Memory Lane for the couple; both Wayne and Deedee were members of Emma's company before their marriage, and the long-time-no-see's flow freely backstage between the Rodgers and the older faces in the company. The joyous encounter between Deedee and Emma takes a bitter turn when Deedee contrasts the varied fates that have befallen them following their climactic competition for the same career-launching part in the ballet Anna Karenina. Emma reminds Deedee, "You got pregnant," and the housewife-instructor retorts, "And you got 19 curtain...
...London home. An aristocratic beauty, she was married at 23 to Churchill, ten years her senior and already a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet minister, amid great predictions that their marriage would last six months. It lasted for 57 years, and Winston called it "the most fortunate and joyous event" of his life. During his long exile in the political wilderness, her intelligence, her tact and her faith in him made her the perfect foil for his tempestuous outbursts and black depressions. The mother of five (only two survive: Actress Sarah Churchill and Mary Soames, wife of Diplomat Christopher...
...beautiful camerawork, music and color. But the main story is a comedy, ending in marriage instead of death; it is complicated by subplots, colorful but distracting; and its climax does not have the heart-wrenching power of the Orpheus myth. In the end, Bahia is a very pretty, very joyous movie, but it is not a masterpiece...
...audience giving itself up to pure enjoyment of the scenery and the gaiety. Bahia is an idyllic world, where even whores can demand the right to love; it is not a world that reflects our own experience, and it is difficult to take it all seriously. Bahia is gay, joyous, beautiful, but it is not believable. And in the end, it isn't really satisfying, either...
...have adopted far more permissive views. A report last June, commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society, said that just about any form of sex, including both homosexuality and adultery, could be considered acceptable, so long as it is "self-liberating, other-enriching, honest, faithful, socially responsible, life-serving and joyous...