Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem absurd (logically, not dramatically) for the cast suddenly to burst into a Broadway show tune in the moments before Moritz commits suicide, but, in another corner of the stage, Melchior sits, horrified, eyes riveted on his friend, seemingly oblivious to the joyous, life-affirming music. Here, Melchior seems to be neither actor nor spectator; he appears merely human and helpless...
...Five years from now when I turn over the presidency to my successor, I intend to hand over a new country," Duarte has vowed. Amid last week's joyous hoopla, that statement struck no one as recklessly hopeful...
Fernandez, who plays j.v. lacrosse but has never run more than four miles, polished off her 16-mile jaunt from Natick to the Prudential Center at the wonderfully joyous pace of 12 minutes a mile...
...night opened with a piece called "Isba" with music by George Winston ("Autumn") and choreography by Alvin Ailey. It seemed to be just a joyous celebration of colors, of people and of love. The set was a brilliant backdrop of pink, blue and green complemented by the dancers hot, brightly colored costumes. The dancers alternated from groups to solos to partners and as they proceeded through different movements they just seem to be having a better and better time. They turned, displaying their perfect techniques with their arms up, down always creating more tension. The dance itself was mainly modern...
...South African courtroom 17 years ago. Last week, after 16 years in prison, Toivo was released. Two hundred supporters of his organization, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), lined the streets in a town near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison was soon dispelled. Toivo raised a clenched fist in a black-power salute and shouted the official SWAPO slogan, "One Namibia...