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Word: cheerful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packed the Welles since the opening. Reminiscent of Cousin, Cousine in its playful attitude toward sexual improprieties, Get Out your Handkerchiefs fails to develop its characters much beyond their pretty faces. Solange, the heroine, has three lovers: two are buffoons, her husband and a stranger he recruited to cheer her up, and one, a thirteen-year-old boy, is sensitive to her need for friendship. The plot is inconsistent, the jokes are obvious, and the direction is heavy handed. You might find this film a clever and coy French farce--if you're drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a World Where Flying Men Hunt Elephants......People Will Just Naturally Want to Get High | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Frequent purges and the faltering economy took a heavy toll on barracks morale, and last year several of Big Daddy's military units mutinied. Seeking to give his men something to cheer about, Amin decided to make good on an old boast that he would seize a patch of frontier territory in Tanzania that he insisted belonged to Uganda. By year's end, Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Big Trouble | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...again hauled on their cables. The rock budged, then began to roll, once again burst free of its cables, bounded off a 125-ft. cliff and landed with a great crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, just 50 ft. from Radnitz's house. From the crowd, a mighty cheer arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...motivated, without any coercion, the entire Harvard women's swimming team to sit and cheer her diving performance instead of resting between the trials and finals of this year's Ivy League Championship meet? (Swimmers notoriously hate diving...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Ivy Diving Champ Pam Stone | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...throw the same pass, and he zigs around four guys and goes into the end zone. Call it luck or magic or whatever, I like it." So do the Pittsburgh fans. As rugged as their team, they will be waving those orange-and-black towels in Miami to cheer on their country boy quarterback as he struggles to win a third Super Bowl and establish the Steelers as the dominant pro football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Duel at the Super Bowl | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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