Word: joyousness
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...accomplishments of their revolution. But their feelings cannot be assessed only from the formulaic wall-posters which spout platitudes like "We confront the future with the experience of 20 years and the enthusiasm of the first day." One must witness, as I did many times during my visit, joyous occasions when audiences broke into spontaneous cheers and the singing of revolutionary songs. On July 25, the eve of the anniversary of the revolution, a boisterous nightclub hushed to a reverential silence as a popular singer began the national anthem. The audience displayed only rapt attention and, a moment later, spirited...
Austria's role is puzzling. The graven newsreel image of the Anschluss-the day that Hitler forcibly joined Austria to the Reich- is one of jubilation: jackbooted, goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi...
...Akii-bua is preparing for the '80 Moscow Olympics, in which he will compete again for Uganda. So happy was one of the world's greatest trackmen to be free of politics that he lined up his family, down to youngest daughter Denise, 14 months, for a joyous group portrait on the blocks...
...Laws is a silly, badly made and squeaky-clean comedy that just happens to deliver more whopping laughs than any other film this year. At its best, this movie recalls the joyous anarchy of the Road pictures; at its worst, it looks like overexposed outtakes from Gilligan's Island. Luckily, the weak sections never run on too long. Every time The In-Laws starts to stumble into oblivion, Peter Falk cocks his head, stares the manic Alan Arkin in the eye, and launches into an earnest if bizarre discourse about the travails of being a CIA agent. "The trick...
Already, from the Carolinas to New York, little holes are appearing in lawns and backyards, hillsides and woodlands. Any evening now, out will pop millions of dark little bugs. They will scamper up almost any upright object-trees, poles, buildings-and soon strike up a joyous racket, marking nuptial rites after being buried alive for 17 years...