Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song is a good ten years old. The place goes up for grabs: the collective memory of a generation is galvanized into sweet lyric communion; 16,500 fans in Atlanta's Omni arena stand, cheer, and start to drift away, remembering...
Liberated from the conventions that made it "improper and unpleasant to reveal anything about sex," Travers felt he could create characters like Alma, the heroine of Bed. By the last act, Alma is chasing her fatigued new husband back into the bedroom; audiences affectionately cheer her on to a rendezvous that completes the comic transformation from Victorian prude to exuberant earth mother...
Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday was hailed across the land last Tuesday. At Monticello, University of Virginia students gave him a cheer and a toast at dawn, and on the floor of the House of Representatives three scholars tried to pour a little of his wisdom into the heads of legislators, who were impatiently edging toward the Easter exit. Jerry Ford limousined over to the Jefferson Memorial to lay a wreath and claim some political kinship with the Virginian. And even one cab driver's tribute was recorded augustly by the Washington Post: "Yeah, I guess...
...beautiful day and a victory over Yale weren't enough, tri-captain Mel Embree gave the two dozen fans present at the stadium even more to cheer about, leaping 7 ft. 2 in. to qualify for upcoming Olympic trials...
...certain Chekhovian poignance into the humorous social observation. A tea party is being thrown for Colin (Richard Briers) out of sympathy. His fiancee of 14 months has just drowned. Colin's pal Diana (Pat Heywood) gets the group together, feeling that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. The tea is a witches' brew. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is inconsolable, in the sense that grief is incomprehensible...