Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here he's Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and, to his joy, a five-year-old adopted son Max. Curious about the boy's lineage, Lenny finds Max's natural mom, Linda (Mira Sorvino), a prostitute who also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked...
Maybe it was silly to expect that we'd turn on our modems and suddenly rediscover the joy of good talk. When is the last time you participated in or even overheard a thrillingly deep conversation? On TV, sitcom families have little to say beyond one-line put-downs, and the braying of pundits passes for political debate. In the movies, a few cliches and grunts, punctuated by gunshots, suffices for a two-hour screenplay. Maybe cybertechnology just came along too late, after we had already entered what postmodernists call the postword era. Which would mean that we have...
...million copies sold, his 1975 album, The Koln Concert, is the best-selling solo-piano album ever. "Music should be thought of as the desire for an ecstatic relationship to life," explains the former disciple of the mystic philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff. "Music has to have a deep joy inside...
...more thoroughly purged his language of the commonplace and banal. "Poetry is more a threshold than a path," he once wrote. From his first published volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966), onward, he has produced intense, lyrical works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...
...poll--tuned in to hear the jury's decision in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. Coming with unexpected swiftness, after less than four hours of deliberation, the not-guilty verdict by the mostly black jury caused a whiplash of reaction--from stunned disbelief to ecstatic cheers of joy. The immediate postmortems polarized along racial lines even as the first jurors to speak to the press said they had based their decision strictly on the prosecution's failure to present convincing evidence...