Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Delphic orator brought all his skills from Albany to Manhattan. His voice full of fury one minute and forgiveness the next, he called out Clinton's name no fewer than 30 times. He evoked the image of a national parade celebrating a victory over problems at home more joyous than the one that followed the gulf war. "So step aside, Mr. Bush!" Cuomo shouted. "You've had your parade...
...first hearing, the slickness of the sides from his Hollywood sound tracks contrasts joltingly with the joyous homespun soul of the Sun sessions and the easy virtuosity of the early RCA material. No matter. It soon comes clear that it was all the same: music. Elvis music. American music. He was rewriting the rules and changing the definitions. On this collection, It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) is followed by the good-times raunch of Blueberry Hill, and Elvis is right at home in both. He was, and remains, the high priest of the holy honky-tonk...
...baiao -- folk music from Brazil's northeast -- to an off-beat Bahian-style rap. There are lots of leisurely sambas too, but the best selections are those on which drummers from Rio's samba schools burst into the explosive rhythms that provide the sound track for the city's joyous carnival...
...GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer. Even Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn...
...what a joyous ride it is, for those with open eyes and minds. As an old Franco-American hit had it, "Ooh, la, la, la, c'est magnifique...