Hints and tips:
...In the Book of Exodus, chapter 30, it is one of the aromatic scents that God mentions to Moses. Liquidambar makes a juice, but styrax solidifies into a paste....
...Recently, though, there appears to be a renewed civic interest in intertwining art and play, with the creation of visionary spaces and sculptures that bring joy....
...in 2004 was a washout, but Jonathan Church’s production, originally created for Chichester Festival Theatre in 2011, succeeds on all levels and is enjoying a five-week summer revival, bringing a little joy...
...I want to see people again putting together wedding lists, buying Moses baskets — you know, the stuff of life. And I might even buy a new armchair, as a political statement....
...This is the place to witness unadulterated joy as the neighbourhood canines escape their cramped Manhattan quarters, stretch their legs and run free....
...Dancing sparks joy. All her clients are encouraged to share videos where they show off their moves sporting newfound vintage garments....
...It is the Bronx of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, lives lived in the wounds cut by Robert Moses’ freeways....
...memorable sequence is one of the quietest: when, in the 10th, terrible plague, all the firstborn of Egypt are killed, the horror of this is expressed through a simple, potent device, as cradled bundles of joy...
...When God handed down the Ten Commandments to Moses, he felt compelled to remind his flock how to treat their neighbours: do not covet their possessions, their wife or their ass....
...Planners such as New York’s Robert Moses believed it was the future, and their vision shapes the US today....
...Since this was the staff-into-serpent scene, one might have hoped at least for a ’tache-centipede, but no joy....
...Moses likes to rotate on his tail. Simply for kicks. The vet inspected Moses’ pink, fleshy stump ruefully and then pointed, and said, his tones hushed, “I’m afraid that now . . . [gulp!]...
...But another thematic gallery here, dedicated to his late Venetian pictures, speaks of visionary joy....
...Simon Schama Author of The Face of Britain and FT contributing editor “Gigantic above all in the capacity for joy” is the way Primo Levi characterises Rabelais — an unlikely choice of literary hero for...
...The best thing about the gig was the drummer, Moses Boyd....
...Moses, the older of the two, received my attentions passively (with his customary grace) but, just as I began to withdraw my hand (wound now directly adjacent to his puggy face), he curled his lips back...
...Nuria Schoenberg, daughter of the great composer Arnold Schoenberg, was in Hamburg in 1954 to attend the posthumous premiere of her father’s opera Moses und Aron....
...As for pride and anger: well, there are proper forms of both, and bad forms of both, and we know what they are; no Moses need come from the mountain to tell us what we understand in our bones....
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