Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cheer up old boy, it's not as bad as it looks. Sure, you're down in the polls, so am I. But don't buy into doom-and-gloom politics. It's all about putting a positive spin on things...
...King's travels help reconcile the monarchy with his father's ex-enemies. His symbolic first tour last year took him to the northern Rif mountains, where Hassan II once crushed a revolt and called tribesmen "dirty, ignorant beggars." Thousands turned out to cheer his son, who was practically moved to tears...
...would be a disservice to their authors to dwell only on the sad finality of these letters full of playful language and good cheer, even under the most harrowing circumstances. After all, most were responses written in the glow of morale boosted by receiving news from home that life was still normal there, that Dad was still priding himself on the tomatoes bursting ripe in the vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score...
...also foreign, at first. "Man, they'd cheer an offsides call!" says rink announcer T.D. Smith (who has taken to lighting his cigars with the propane torch the players use to curve their sticks). The club hired a stand-up comic to pull volunteers from the audience and demonstrate each penalty, from high-sticking to cross-checking. And in a place that had no youth hockey, Gators players held clinics and helped organize 15 youth teams...
...movies in general. Such an idea is ingenious in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, particularly within the confines of musical theater. Essentially, Antonelli's tries so hard to simultaneously revel in and revile its swing-era campiness that it ends up doing neither. Who should we cheer for? Who is fooling whom? The musical plays with the audience a little too much, so confusing them that they become disinterested...