Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with high-rise handlebars and long seats like the ones on their older brothers' Hondas and Harleys; more conspicuous are three perfectly-manicured Little League fields across the street from the semi-pro Alaska Gold-pannier's Field, where families in station wagons pull in every summer night to cheer for their sons; more conspicuous are the modern churches, the fancy airline offices, the laundromats, the suburban-style family theater, and the Disney-Frontier-land-like amusement park called Alaskaland all built along the few miles of divided highway that stretches between the busy Fairbanks airport and Fort Wainwright...
...Holly Woodlawn, an inveterate collector of garbage and solicitor of the affections of young boys. Miss Woodlawn (who is actually a transvestite) cares deeply about Joe and passionately wants him to kick heroin, if only so he will be of use to her in bed. She tries to cheer him up, she pleads with him, she screeches...
...election day, when it was apparent-but not definite-that Studds had lost. Surveying the despondent group that was waiting for the returns in a motel room with Studds, a Boston reporter said, "I don't understand why everyone's so unhappy. Why don't you stand up and cheer and say, 'Let's win one for the boss...
...Reported TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "The point was made that the White House blew it this year on the law-and-order issue by trying to blame the Democrats so heavyhandedly that it boomeranged." Said one participant afterward: "Looking toward '72, I can't see anything to cheer about. Nobody there was pleased about what happened on Nov. 3 -or if they were, they kept quiet about...
Scrooge is a high-budget holiday spectacular, a musical extracted from Dickens' A Christmas Carol that turns out to be a curdled cup of holiday cheer. It is hard to imagine how men of supposed good will and talent could invest their time, their money and their skill in such a spectacularly shoddy enterprise. First frame to last, Scrooge is a mechanical movie made with indifference to every quality but the box office receipts...