Word: joyousness
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...welcoming crowds lining the streets and waving flags as the President goes by. And unlike in India, there won't even be protests. Bush will arrive in the dark of night, and all streets will be cleared before his passage. Even the spring festival of Basant, usually a joyous occasion celebrated with kite-fighting competitions, bright colors and traditional foods has been postponed until after President Bush leaves. That now seems very appropriate, since the bombing has only underscored how little there is to celebrate in the war on terror...
...good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well-known for selecting unheard-of directors, Ben Gibbard and company have struck gold with Norton, who manages to channel Nick Park (“Wallace & Gromit”) and Gustav Klimt at once. The result is both joyous and fragile, a montage of imagery and styles that suggest that everyone had some fun making the video. Striking me rather like what Paul Klee might have created, had he been commissioned to make a music video, the imagery is at once bright and maudlin, working with a juxtaposition Death...
...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...grinned right back, shouting “You’re all criminals, but we love you anyway!” The Go! Team’s sunny indie-pop-cum-hip-hop sound and on-stage dynamism got Boston’s Paradise Rock Club jumping like a joyous street party. As the audience sang along to a sonic hodgepodge mixing rocked-up Moby with early 1990s rap, The Go! Team exuded infectious energy and joy. On the tail end of their three-week tour across the US, The Go! Team are swimming in fresh acclaim. Though their current...
Four Tet'selectronic maestro Kieran Hebden loops and layers a series of joyous chirps and cymbal crashes until an honest-to-goodness tune emerges, then he moves it around with the dexterity of a veteran shell gamer...