Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aristide's joy-filled return marked more than a victory for the activist priest who transformed Haitian politics. As he gratefully acknowledged, the moment would never have occurred without the persistence of Bill Clinton, who dispatched a peaceful army to pave the way. Now the U.S. and Aristide depend on each other for success. The Haitian leader's ceremonial return was visibly orchestrated by his muscular allies. When he arrived a few minutes before noon, it was aboard a U.S. Air Force jet. For his safety, he was allowed only the most subdued reception by a privileged phalanx of dignitaries...
...sort of like MTV's The Real World packed into a couple dozen screeching notes. It's moments like the one at the end of 25 that separate Veruca Salt from bands that deserve the squirrel treatment. The members allow themselves to be caught up in the joy of playing rock 'n' roll, and they take their listeners along...
...jail time; his mom has to hold things together in the dark (literally -- the electricity's been turned off). But she, the film's heroine, does it; then she gets the top grade in a nurse's-assistant course. At her graduation, all we see are tears of joy and rows of empty chairs...
...relatives as a baby, Gray Sexton's recalls being "abandoned" by her mother at an early age. In probably the longest case of post-partum depression, the poet-to-be insisted for years that she was unable to take care of her daughters (the author has a sister, Joy, two years her junior), claiming at times that she hated them and even desired to kill them. This feeling of dismissal was only punctuated by the indifference and/or actual abuse Gray Sexton met in her different foster homes...
...first headlines from Haiti had boisterous, almost frenetic crowds joyfully welcoming American troops. Alas, we were also received with joy in Somalia. Why, even the Israelis were showered with flowers (by locals glad to be rid of the P.L.O.) when they invaded Lebanon in 1982. Three years later, they withdrew under a hail of bullets and bombs...