Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most fascinating and contradictory figures. Fond of skintight jeans, torn T shirts and excessive amounts of black eye shadow, she combines a punkish disdain for the world with an expressive, let's-get-it-on sexuality. As the songwriter and singer of the Pretenders, she manages to create buoyant, invigorating rock 'n' roll by weaving pop music's tunefulness with punk's aggressive energy. With pulsing, loping guitar work and a ragged- edged style that retains the sound of a great garage band, the Pretenders' early records produced an array of hits like Precious and Talk of the Town...
Surrounded by dozens of children at a buoyant White House ceremony, President Clinton signed into law an expansion of Head Start that would permit the popular preschool program to reach out to children under three and provide full-day, year-round classes. Where the President's proposed $700 million increase to fund the more ambitious Head Start will come from is unclear...
...disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless compensated for want of volume...
...TIME gathered six leading economists to assess the 1994 outlook, there was not a Cassandra among them: they foresaw the strongest U.S. growth since the late 1980s combined with continued low inflation and gradually falling unemployment. "I describe my forecast as 'the best of all possible worlds,' " said a buoyant Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm C.J. Lawrence...
...these highlights the buoyant work of the children, and what could go that wrong? Well, the lighting and the camera work. Director Emile Ardolino's palette is inexplicably dark and shot so dizzily that the dancing is often hard to follow. Much of the party scene is a murky jumble. To help clarify things, the filmmakers added a last-minute narration by Kevin Kline. From a purist's viewpoint, Kit Culkin, Macaulay's demanding father and manager, was correct when he argued noisily that this intrusion into Balanchine's concept should be excised. When he lost out, he retaliated...