Word: joyousness
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Said she: "The 40th anniversary gala was genuinely one of the most joyous occasions this family has ever known. There was history, there was fun, there was sentiment, there was love. I never thought in 1945 that Oliver Smith and I would be directors more than temporarily. But that was 35 years ago. Those 35 years have brought me a kind of professional enjoyment that no sad moment, no difficult time, has clouded. It hasn't always been easy, but the company has grown and developed, and what more can any family...
...President had changed his name from Joseph Désiré Mobutu, so it would seem less colonial and perhaps less Christian. But one could scarcely have discerned any political advantage in that from the joyous crowd of more than 1 million people packed along the entire route; their numbers and enthusiasm equaled the welcomes John Paul received in Mexico, Poland and the U.S. Many of the Zaïreans wore T shirts that depicted a brown-skinned Pontiff. On his way, the Pope repeated "Mvidi Mukulu" ("God bless...
Alfred Hitchcock was awfully fat, but his face betrayed none of the joyous gluttony of our other great obese director, Orson Welles--a loquacious whale who would swallow the world. In Hitchcock's films, food was often associated with guilt; it was a sign of indulgence. Hitchcock was a perverse brat buried in mounds of stolid grey flesh--our naughtiest virtuoso...
...Path (1918) and Corinne Griffith surrounded by a field of flowers in Outcast (1928) prove that the silents offered impressionistic masterpieces that have remained unequaled. A candid shot of Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks clowning on the set of The Kid helps flesh out Coogan's joyous memories of his child-star days. The many photos of old Hollywood sets -including a sun-flooded reconstruction of Ford's Theater for The Birth of a Nation -attest to the resourcefulness of movie craftsmen in the pre-sound-stage period. The eccentricities of Hollywood's first showmen...
...perform can be as chafing as the commandment to abstain. Talese thinks that the war between men and women could be called off if women would learn to like "recreational sex." He does not add that this fantasy of surrender is a boring substitute for the complex, painful and joyous reality...