Word: buoying
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...moral: Never believe in the fairy tales movie people create. They will buoy your spirit and, with the flick of a headline, crush it. Another moral: Don't always heed what you read. The tabloid newspapers, especially in New York City, have feasted on this fracas, one-upping each other daily in the body count of revoltin' developments. With all the soiled laundry of unverified allegations, the facts are hard to determine, let alone the truth. Every journalist is, perforce, a garbologist...
...Disney style need not be seen as the apogee of American culture; it can illuminate, it can suffocate, it can buoy or cloy. But when the Disney Imagineers get it right, they get it big. Euro Disney's Disneyland Hotel, the Imagineers' pink Victorian palace, boasts a giant Mickey Mouse clock and, at night, thousands of light bulbs that trace the spine of every ornate gable and cupola. The capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces...
Fortunately for Bush, there have been plenty of big-ticket items to deal with in the foreign policy arena--his forte--which helped buoy his popularity ratings over the past three years...
What a difference a few decades make. Stella finally had no choice but to live for, and ultimately through, her daughter. Dottie has no choice but to live for herself and hope her happiness will buoy the kids along. Stella's saving gracelessness was lack of awareness; she never realized what a ridiculous figure she cut. Dottie's saving grace is full ironic awareness of the chance she is taking. As she rises from cosmetics-counter tummler to the Carson show to Las Vegas, she works this gag into her act: "If you give kids a choice -- your mother...
...Crimson is still in the hunt for the Ivy title and this momentous win over Connecticut may just be enough to buoy the team to a share of the league crown...