Countless works on paper, including one seemingly endless scroll, attest to Haring's near-compulsive need to draw, expressing a joy for life that was cut tragically short.
I can hardly express what a joy this romance is: a treat for film-buffs, yes, but the thrill of the film does not reside in spotting the references to other silver-screen classics, but in the human story, acted out with delicacy and charm as well as zinging energy and fun.
Sitting at the bar was a lance corporal in the Marine Reserves who, like many others, expressed a qualified joy, though in his case the joy was qualified by something other than sadness or worry.
"Die ihr aus dunkeln Grüften," which opened the set, expresses a believer's joy at the natural treasures found in the open air.
In the love duet "My Heart Is So Full of You," sung with Victoria Clark, you were aware of how the melody of a song expressing an uncontainable joy also bursts at the seams.
His main number, "Express Yourself," is such a joy I have never seen an audience in more of a love affair with a song, number or actor in my 35 years of attending theater.
She and a friend, she said, "do a mekahye once a summer," using a Yiddish word for a rapturous pleasure that is often chosen to express the joy of a swim on a sultry day.
He looked intently at the face of the Virgin, which expressed a mixture of joy, surprise, and sadness.
Addiction narratives in which the protagonist survives often see the hero praise the light, expressing a new-found joy in living clean; in living healthy-minded.
What he says next is a little cryptic, but he seems like a man struggling to express a new-found joy at being clean.
