Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was required to cry, Justin would go off and think of sad things, like the possibility of some injury to his dog Chipper, a golden retriever. Once, just before he was supposed to turn on the tears, he went into a dark room to prepare, just as he had seen Dustin Hoffman...
...casual visitor, it looks like a typical boarding school for the overprivileged-300 acres in Stockbridge, Mass., a mansion, dorms, art studios, a gym, music rehearsal rooms and a barn, and 150 teen-agers so bright-faced and chipper that local residents say they can identify them by the "DeSisto glow...
...result is not chills, but an uncontrollable desire to break into laughter, so lacking is the film in properly gothic suspense. Margot Kidder is chipper and pleasant as the puzzled wife resisting her worst suspicions about the demons in her dream house, but she cannot overcome the film's ineptitude and lethargy. The movie's creators should either have stuck to the facts, ma'am, or they should have invented something to scare the pants off us. As it is, they have managed merely to bore them...
...gravity, they quickly settled into reclining chairs, posed cheerfully with a bouquet of gladioli and gamely fielded questions of Soviet journalists. Admitted Ryumin: "It's hard to get the tongue around words." But after a night on down-filled mattresses, the new Heroes of the Soviet Union seemed chipper enough to risk a dip in a hotel pool (outfitted with safety netting) and a scorching steam bath...
...program is approved by the lame-duck Parliament, she will become the first woman to govern Portugal since Queen Maria II in 1853. The chipper diplomat, who is single, is undaunted by that prospect. She acknowledges Maggie Thatcher's political pioneering. "We have always imitated the English," she quipped last week. "After all, we only started liking our own port wine after they...