Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Happiness and hatred walk side by side on South Africa's road to democracy. Nelson Mandela wants to focus attention on the better life to come, "the historic moment when all South Africans, blacks and whites, will work together to build a new country." But while joyous crowds of African National Congress supporters chant and cheer at his every appearance, Afrikaner Resistance Movement leader Eugene Terreblanche warns of trouble to come if whites are not given their own state. Last week a visibly angry Mandela repeatedly interrupted his upbeat campaign speeches to warn that he would match violence with violence...
Finding taboos in Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters...
Then you have to reckon with their effect on ads, packaging, T shirts, window design in shops, the whole reappropriation party -- amusing and even joyous at first, and then, like most parties, a drag -- that the American commercial world threw to welcome back the images and techniques Lichtenstein took from it and put into a zippier, more art-conscious form, ripe for reuse as "quality" stuff...
That quality is Short Cuts' great redeeming grace. But it is Altman's refusal to linger on it sentimentally, his joyous appreciation of his actors' wicked inventiveness, and everyone's passionate, quick-witted desire to expose the vagaries of human behavior under quotidian pressure that simply sweep you up and sweep away whatever doubts you may have about its grand design. It is, finally, as a richly pulsating, hugely entertaining human comedy -- antic, wayward, glancing -- that Short Cuts bemuses, amuses and finally entrances...
...winds of fortune blow kindly, Raul Gardini will be remembered as a shining symbol of his age, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor who piloted both his companies and his million-dollar yachts with joyous abandon. He worked hard for 60 years to cultivate that image, in a land where myths ripen richly and image often counts more than fact...