Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that they weren't. He was an engaging combination of sass and sweetness and naivete. His girlfriend disclosed that the first time he was kissed, he fainted. Merriment always seemed to be bubbling just below the surface, even when the topics were somber. When reporters asked about his affiliation with Islam, he joked that he was going to have four wives: one to shine his shoes, one to feed him grapes, one to rub oil on his muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea...
...goodbyes (to say nothing of bodily fluids) are being exchanged like lira for euros. We approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because one is moving to New York and the other to Sydney...
...this the hushed lyricism of Jenny Giering's I Follow and the mordant merriment of Michael John LaChiusa's Mistress of the Senator, and you've got a collection guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
...feel that [Casino Night] demonstrates thespirit of amusement and merriment and theintegration LoHoCo had hoped to achieve," Mignonesaid...
...confirms such supernatural hi-jinks. None of the staff at the Wadsworth House have heard anything about a man in a Tricorn hat. Similarly, no one in University Hall, not the staff, not the janitors, not even Dean Archie C. Epps III, have heard sounds of ghostly merriment. At Christ Church, administrator Dick Whittington will give a thorough tour of the 12 graves in the basement of the church, but has never heard of a rambling British soldier. Bill Gannon, he adds, left years...