Word: joyousness
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Fuck is a band that thrives upon subverting expectation and playing upon the ambiguities of language. A manifesto contained within one of their earlier albums explains that "From the puritanical knee-jerk cringe to the joyous declamation of tourettes [sic], the mere utterance of this monosyllable rarely fails to invoke an immediate response, emotionally and/or intellectually. And in considering an implied negativity, the effect becomes confused, comical and thought-enticing: fuck records, fuck product, fuck fans, fuck music...
...last day of 1999, virtually everyone in Berlin is likely to head for the same place: the Brandenburg Gate. Once a symbol of the city's loathed division, it was triumphantly reopened in December 1989. A decade later, it is certain to be a particularly joyous gathering place to usher in 2000--with splendid music, wondrous fireworks and considerable jubilation...
...should have been one of the most joyous weeks of her life. Hafsat Abiola, an accomplished Harvard senior with a semester of studies left to go, planned to attend the 1996 graduation with her class. The best part was that her mother Kudirat--whom she hadn't seen in an entire year--would be flying in for a visit...
...exhausted after game 7 against the Indiana Pacers, but his friends on the team noticed that when the final game was over, he seemed almost giddy as he raced back to the locker room, like a joyous schoolboy liberated from class after the last day of school. He was equally gleeful on the first flight out to Salt Lake City, Utah, an odd boyishness for a player who was supposed to be old and tired and about to face a team that was rested and that held the home-court advantage. Some thought it came from the fact that...
Forty years ago, if any right-thinking Modernist art critic had been asked to list a few FFAs (formerly famous artists) who had not a prayer of return from the elephants' graveyard of reputation, who were buried forever without the least chance of a joyous resurrection or even a polite exhumation, the name of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones would surely have come up. The most eminent of Victorians: by the 1880s, an absolute pillar of the British cultural establishment, admired by every connoisseur from John Ruskin on down. The leader of the second wave of that peculiarly English...