Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though no one in the Administration is ready to cheer a yawning trade gap and a weakening dollar, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and other top officials are by no means upset by them. They believe the best way to perk up the sluggish world economy is for the relatively well-off nations to buy more from depressed countries by either revaluing their currencies (to make imports cheaper) or expanding their economies faster (to increase demand for foreign products). The main reason for the big U.S. deficit, Treasury officials contend, is that the American economy has been growing at a much...
...high point of two frenetic days of travel, though, was Carter's stopover in Charleston. The spectacle of thousands of people turning out in 100° temperatures to cheer the presidential motorcade as it wound through Charleston's narrow myrtle-scented streets evoked familiar campaign memories, but Carter quickly made clear to the legislators that he had a much broader-and more distant-audience in mind...
...party is being thrown for Colin (Eli Wallach), out of sympathy. His fiancee of 14 months has just drowned. Diana (Anne Jackson) gets the group together. She feels that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...
...fault seems to lie more with the book and direction than with the actors. Both of them have relatively good voices, and once in a while they manage to engage the audience's sympathy despite the play's flaws; but the cliches destroy the effect almost immediately. We can cheer Angel's decision to break out of the marriage when her husband has an affair--Angel does a brilliant job with "Flaming Agnes," the song that marks the crisis--but she is jerked almost immediately back to the traditional role, better expressed in songs like "What is a Woman" (answer...
Spring Happening. By the time he had climbed about ten floors, Willig had created a cheerful springtime happening. Down below, spectators were flocking to cheer him on. Television crews arrived. And so did the cops, but they too became caught up in the spirit of the climb. A couple of cops mounted a window washers' scaffold and rode along with Willig for half the way-close enough to be of help if he wanted any. He didn...