Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travelled with a journalist and photographer to Normandy to visit one of the museums with five "MNR" artworks and to interview the museum's curator. This museum's pride and joy was an unclaimed Monet that had been stolen from France by the Germans, and it also had a Delacroix that had been recovered from the Nazis. But to the curator's knowledge, there had never been a claim on any of these five works despite their having been displayed since the early...
...court. She had already hinted at a deep rancor. Two days earlier, speaking to Bryant Gumbel on CBS's Public Eye, she recalled how Woodward had "once told me she didn't want to have children," and added, "Part of me really hopes she doesn't have that joy in her life...
...find that recipe, with its characteristic boldface ingredients, in the brand-new Joy of Cooking (Scribner; 1,136 pages; $30) published this week, just in time for the looming holiday feasts. But there are some 2,600 others, all but a handful of them original or extensively revised versions of the recipes that have catered to American tastes for more than 60 years...
...Indeed, there is a definite cartoonish quality to the silly, frivolous and mischievous schtick Atkinson perpetrates. Also cartoon-like is the inconsequential, episodic action; the audience can sit back and enjoy the mashugina machinations without bothering to worry about property damage or hurt feelings. There is a universally appealing joy in watching Atkinson interact, child-like, with the world around him and doing most of it destructively. Attaching import to his actions ruins...
...teams do it and whoop for joy. Good teams do it and breathe sighs of relief. The Oakland Raiders have sustained a franchise doing it, and it's probably the only kind of winning that John Madden will ever praise on national television...