Word: boosterish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble began in 1974, when the already battered Daily News merged its advertising, circulation and production departments with those of the far larger Times (circ. 45,350). Only the editorial departments remained separate: the News continued to ask awkward questions about conservation while the Times remained boosterish about the Alaska oil pipeline and any other scheme that might improve the state's economy...
...Jean-Pierre Léaud that "people like us are only happy in our work," or when Jacqueline Bisset risks a secure marriage to spend the night with Léaud-for reasons that seem both unconvincingly melodramatic and obscure-the movie begins to sound a little defensive and boosterish, like a chorus of There's No Business like Show Business...