Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are incantations, summoning up a joyous past from deepest grief for a vanished world. Alexander's celebrations recall a poem by his brother that begins, "Violently the spring bursts into Moscow houses." In the poem, the poet and his friends meet to hail the season. Yet Boris adds: "Our evenings are farewells/ Our parties are testaments/ So that the secret stream of suffering/ May warm the cold of life." The party is long over, but Alexander's book still serves the same high purpose...
This Southern scene crashes into a joyous celebration of gospel music. Three men in black run in different directions onto the stage against a flourescent red set. This section was undoubtedly one of the highest points of the entire performance. Each man's technique was perfect--they appeared to pose at the top of their jumps, and to complete remarkably difficult sequences of steps. Their speed was unmatched...
...about a lad who would, if he could, become a bird. We are talking about an adolescent making a bird suit pasted together feather by feather and then launching himself off roofs and cliffs in an attempt to fly. And we are talking about a madness that is innocent, joyous and, finally, perhaps unconquerable and exemplary. Especially as it is presented by Matthew Modine in a brave performance--just over the top but under control--with Nicolas Cage playing sane and sensible counterpoint as Al. In movies ! like Midnight Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty...
...Twas THE WEEK before Christmas and all through the land Folks were joyous that New Year's was almost at hand. Two more weeks and Orwellian fear's would be through. If '84's passed, can Big Brother be true? Down in D.C. the rightists are snug in their beds. With visions of deficits in nary a head. While up on the Hill the red cheeked St. Tip Prepares for his final tiff with the Gip. Here is Cambridge the season is merry as ever. Full of papers unwritten and students unclever. And as dining halls shut and the dorms...
...Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...