Word: cheerful
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...heroically clenched performance), who goes to Barcelona looking for her ex-husband and ends up mothering half a dozen lost souls. She is Mother Courage, Mother Teresa and your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives the viewer reasons to laugh and cheer. It brims with life; it has more convulsive plot twists than any recent Hollywood movie; it parades a fistful of seductive Spanish stars (Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan); it shows Almodovar, the Spanish writer-director best known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in full emotional...
...left-right thing. We want our liberals to tout government and our conservatives to cheer faith-based solutions with equal confidence that they'll solve social problems, even when we know, in our hearts, each approach has its limits. We like the con. So George Bush is being coy. So what? Join the club...
...guess I didn't get it." He will advise friends to "wait for the video." After a midnight show at the Angelika, the indie showplace in lower Manhattan where Blair Witch had its theatrical premiere on July 14, a vocal minority is shouting, like a high school football cheer, a chorus of "Bulllllsh__!" But a few persist in believing, even after the final cast and credit roll, that this clever fiction is for real--a documentary that ends in death. "You mean it's not?" asks stunned Chicagoan Paula Taylor. "The website made it sound...
...will tirelessly go to practices and games and cheer away. I will take part in pitching, batting, jump shots and lay-ups. The next time you see zealous, overheated parents, remember that at least they have taken the time to participate in their child's life. Not every parent is looking for a multimillion-dollar contract. What's being sculpted here is not a pro athlete but a secure, stable, responsible adult. This weekend's baseball game is where we will continue teaching the lessons of life...one pitch at a time. SHARON HAIGNEY Fort Worth, Texas...
After two years of dismal student scores on statewide standardized tests, Cambridge school officials finally have something to cheer about...