Instead, Kiki's contradictions emerge from the cartoons: her liberated sexual freedom is shadowed by a masochistic tendency to forgive abusive lovers; while her joyous embrace of the pleasures of life (food, art, wine, song, sunshine) is enmeshed with drug addiction and alcoholism.
We were greeted by village leaders offering fresh flower garland necklaces while a joyous collection of enthusiastic, young boys beat drums and tins of all sizes in the background.
Once in a while we find the joyous part of any tough story, and this shoot of young and new Americans was just that.
Each detail sounds fresh and joyous, while Stanko's inspired and emotional themes and solos fly high above.
The instrumental performance is airy, the choral singing sturdy and joyous, while William Towers and Peter Harvey beguile in Croft's duet on a ground bass, "Peace Is the Song".
Kenyan photographer Otieno Nyadimo's photograph of a African man holding his hands up to the sky is joyous, while Jose Maria Perez's superimposed giraffe has got to be the most surreal submission so far.
Vuitton's 1980s dresses were also re-worked, but with bright dots and flowers, a mix of prints that made the collection joyous while steering it away from a hippie de luxe style.
In the "Gloria Mr. Gilbertt brought swinging rhythmic gait to the joyous music while allowing inner details and harmonic shifts to come through.
This collection had moved away from club land, while still maintaining a joyous sense of people having fun, even when it snows.
And while I should be joyous that my feisty, young, oft-overlooked Seattle Seahawks have now beaten the evil Dallas Cowboys and the perennially likable and publically owned Green Bay Packers, I can't exult.
