Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne just hours before Thomas Kean, a Republican, was sworn in as his successor, had been challenged in court by the state's seven Republican Congressmen, who argued that the plan was drawn mainly to help elect Democrats. "Hurray!" said Kean, with a partisan cheer after hearing of the court's decision. "That good-for-nothing plan was not good for the people of New Jersey...
Given this backstairs acrimony it is hardly a surprise when the divorce further isolates Margaret from the simple life in Balmoral and Buckingham. With her companion Roddy, 18 years her junior, she begins tripping around the Caribbean, vainly searching for health and cheer. Dempster pores over royal records and checks back issues of the newspapers, but one of his most reliable sources seems to be an old friend of Margaret's whose drug-dependent son sold photographs of the princess to pay off his pusher. By the final curtain, Margaret and Roddy have split and the public is once...
...course, Faith and George almost get back together, while we, an audience enlightened by years of such cinematic breakings away, know that we are supposed to cheer for Faith to strike out on her own. In a scene that dogmatically explicates the all-too-predictable complexities of life, George confesses that he never appreciated the difficult role of wife and mother, that he was never around to be a good father, wrapped up in his work as he was. His attempt to become Alan Alda comes too late in his marriage to be relevant, and too late in film history...
...congratulate the Harvard hockey team for making the playoffs after going for so long without a chance for post-season laurels. And also, we would like to thank the icemen for giving Harvard University something to cheer about in these otherwise gloomy times...
...mark of the first period. Harvard's Scott Fusco scores his team's fifth goal, and as the "Sieve" cheer rings through the arena once more. Cornell Coach Dick Bertrand decides he has seen enough of Brian Hayward. Back-up goaltender Darren Eliot, no slouch in the nets himself, comes into the game. "Second string! Second string!" the Harvard fans yell. And from the band, "Hev Eliot you're second string to a sieve...