Word: joyousness
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...brother Kevin and I are blessed to have in our memory banks the ne plus ultra first-game experience, the Gone With the Wind of first games. Dad wanted us to see Ted Williams play before he retired. The day was fine and fair, the car ride to Boston joyous. Our first-ever trip on the T was a thrill, and then we hastened to the Fens (see what I mean, about the ode?). Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked...
...pahs), and a chorus starts to sing the words painted on the curtain, which flies open to reveal a dozen dancers in Spanish costumes prancing merrily in front of a backdrop that is an explosion of magenta and yellow. Hold on to your ticket stub: Mark Morris' joyous dance version of Four Saints in Three Acts, the surrealist opera by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, is off and galloping...
...remember the first day I walked into a YMCA weight room, a scrawny kid just entering those joyous years of puberty. There was a tinny radio in one corner with a coat hanger for an antenna cranking out the Bee Gees. Bulked-up men were whistling the tune to Saturday Night Fever as they heaved and bench-pressed rusty iron. One of them glanced at my skinny legs and rumpled socks. "Be careful," he warned me. "At your age, this could stunt your growth...
...around like Lilliputians in the hands of Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens, I was forced to hear my neighbor ravenously slurp salsa off his fingertips. For some, the day becomes a covert Budweiser-consumption competition. For others, any sign of physical weakness in the football players elicits a joyous chorus of "sissy" and "wimp." When the quarterback of the Ravens hustled off the field to get an x-ray of his left hand, a resident Hercules yelled, "Put on a bandage and suck it up. This is the damn Super Bowl...
This high-energy music not only makes you want to dance, it makes you want to celebrate. Crespo, who has scored Spanish-language hits with such songs as Suavemente and Pintame, is a master of merengue, and his talent lies in crafting upbeat, joyous songs. On Wow Flash! he shows some development in his ability to find nuance and emotion while staying in the groove. Although the name of this CD makes it a front runner for the First Annual Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again Goofiest Album Title Award, pretty much everything else about this release...