Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rocky, of course, loses, on points. But, the film asserts, he has really won. After it's over, he tells Adrian "I'm gonna know for the first time in my life that I'm not just another bum from the neighborhood." With Rocky everyone from every neighborhood should cheer. Only the unrealism of the American dream has died...
Then sound the trumpets, drop the handkerchiefs, and cheer the carnage while American Football, Character and Sportsmanship burn...
...season was a disaster; discounted for inflation, this year's holiday volume may not have matched and at any rate did not exceed 1973's. All the same, many retailers will be stocking up for spring much more generously than last year, in anticipation of continued consumer cheer. But they will also be cautious and realistic, remembering too well what it means to be caught with oversupplies. Says Joseph Ellis, a retailing analyst at the investment firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "We are not in an atmosphere of retail profligacy-not yet." Meanwhile, in the weeks before...
George McGovern ran on a more or less populist platform in 1972 and was soundly trounced. Burned once, Democrats are wary of playing with this kind of political fire again. Among many liberals, Harris is the sentimental favorite. He speaks their language forcefully and eloquently. But after they cheer and chortle over his speeches, they have sober second thoughts. They want a winner in 1976, and Harris does not look like...
...nine songs, plus John Entwistle's Success Story, evoke a rock star's fight against time. Nicky Hopkins' vigorous keyboards, added to the band's own mix of acoustic and electric instruments, produce intense, powerful, no-nonsense music and an album that is something to cheer about...