Word: joyousness
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...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...
...guess that as long as there are holidays, there will always have to be busy travel days in the United States. Although I don't think that we should abolish Thanksgiving, it's a shame that a hectic day of travel has to come after a typically relaxing, joyous holiday with missed family, friends and pumpkin...
Make no mistake--overtaking the No. 1 team in the land was never going to be easy. But had the Harvard women's soccer team come up against top-ranked Notre Dame one week ago, it may have met a more joyous fate than the 2-0 loss it suffered at a frigid and snowy Alumni Field here on Friday night...