Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roadster is back. After years of declining sales, and against the Boomer vanguard of minivans and sport utilities, automakers such as Jaguar and Porsche have rediscovered and updated a vintage class of sports cars that have virtually no reason for being except the sheer wind-in-your-face joy of motoring...
...very personal to me," he says about Emancipation, a 36-song, three-hour-long epic. "I got everything out of my system with it. When I wrote it, I was a free man and a happy man and a clear man. You'll hear much more clarity and joy in it." But was a triple album really necessary? "I let the music dictate what I want," says the Artist. "Citizen Kane is a long movie; maybe this is my Citizen Kane. I've got nobody to answer to now. This is one of the most satisfying things I've ever...
This is not to say that we can only find true joy in the simple, unambitious life. To do so would be trite and false. There are those among us who genuinely thrive on success, are only truly happy when reaching a new goal, and can take it in stride when they fail...
...holidays get near, Hollywood gets the glums. For Christmas, it gives moviegoers a hair shirt: severe, serious films angled more for Oscar consideration than for Yuletide joy giving. Remember Nixon, Georgia, Othello in '95? This season, with few Academy Award contenders emerging in the first 10 months, studios will come down with a bad case of good intentions...
...Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival of Light (Six Degrees), a CD for Hanukkah with the Dutch band Flairck. Even the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos have a seasonal CD: Christmas Chants (Jade). Still, some of the best holiday music is all-American--Jazz for Joy (Verve), with Abbey Lincoln and others; Blessed Quietness (Atlantic), with pianist Cyrus Chestnut; and Just Say Noel (Geffen), with alternative rocker Beck and jazz rappers the Roots...