As she shifted, heaving, between these two positions, he caught glimpses of her face, contorted, wet, until finally she sat silent a moment, chin on steering wheel, watery eyes blinking in the happy sun.
"When people look at my paintings, I hope they can hear the children asking, 'Do you really think we're happy?' " Sun Mu, who was trained to create posters and murals for the Communist government, is the first defector from the North to have won fame as a painter in the South by applying that same propagandistic style to biting parodies of the North Korean regime.
It's a happy, sun-splashed background for this joyful romantic romp.
What about those other shadows that creep at the edges of our happy, sun-soaked lives?
Dex's romping with his dog, a happy sun-colored Lab, and his ease with the preschoolers he teaches are part of what makes him so attractive to women.
In Wrightsville Beach, N.C., the East Coast Wahine Championships, held near the old Crystal Pier, draws a happy, sun-bleached throng for women-only surf competitions.
In addition, Rodgers and Hammerstein's enlightened plea for racial harmony is vitiated by their condescending vision of Pacific islanders as smiling, happy, sun-kissed folk only too ready to oblige the visiting Americans.
"Everybody's happy, the sun's out.
A white buddleja is another good option – happy in sun or part-shade and willing to take on the clay.
After the intermission, "Happy Lucky Sun" premières, in Day-Glo yellow, with some of Brooks's most extreme acrobatic minimalism to date: the dancers hover horizontal over the ground almost as much as they stand on their feet.
And in "Happy Lucky Sun," which features all six company members, Mr. Brooks performs a marvelous solo, all stiff, whipping arms and shuddering body, that, like much else in his work, goes on just long enough to lose its impact.
