David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” has a baseline that wiggles and leaps with uncontained joy. It’s a happy piece of music. Of course—the refrain goes—“happy” here cannot mean what it means in “Jones is a happy guy,” or “Jones is feeling happy right now.” But it is not unusual for a word’s meaning to spread beyond its basic use, and inde…
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