Word: joyousness
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...Hemingway play a similarly mismatched couple? In Hannah and Her Sisters didn't he imagine an affair between a sister and one of her brothers-in-law? No one recalls that Manhattan's middle-aged male ended up miserably alone, and that the scandalous tryst in Hannah was not joyous or lasting. So the inference holds: that Allen's bad life is imitating his good...
...begin his climb from the electoral cellar, George Bush needed a fortnight of seamless good fortune: a small triumph of diplomacy with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, James Baker's return to political service, then a smooth glide to Houston for joyous coronation by a united Republican Party. Maybe the convention week will go that way. But in the first half of the Republican fortnight, the President seemed unable to awake from what is turning out to be a nightmarish fight for re-election...
...know the tunes backwards and forwards. These songs are so infectious you'll feel like they've been floating around in our collective unconscious, just waiting for someone like Erasure's Andy Bell to give them voice. They sound like nursery songs, and they have the same simplistic, joyous appeal...
...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...