Word: joyousness
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...baiao -- folk music from Brazil's northeast -- to an off-beat Bahian-style rap. There are lots of leisurely sambas too, but the best selections are those on which drummers from Rio's samba schools burst into the explosive rhythms that provide the sound track for the city's joyous carnival...
...GIVES NOTHING AWAY TO REVEAL that near the end of Alice McDermott's lyrical novel At Weddings and Wakes, there is a joyous wedding celebration. The bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer. Even Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn...
...what a joyous ride it is, for those with open eyes and minds. As an old Franco-American hit had it, "Ooh, la, la, la, c'est magnifique...
CINEMA The joyous Mambo Kings is directed by . . . an art dealer...
Slightly inebriated party-goers erupted in joyous celebration, but several members of the national media and at least one campaign aide were seen turning to colleagues with a look that said, "What was that supposed to mean...