Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parody, a feature on the people of Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, whose children have been turned into household appliances by radiation. The tone is perfect--genuine concern for the tragic victims, yet with a sense that everything will turn out all right in the end. The relentless good cheer comes through mostly in the writing. Snappy puns and appealing alliteration make everything seem a little less gloomy. To wit: "Some people, however, are wearing their nuclear designer genes with a smile...(or)...the problem has the Middletown populace as irritated as they are irradiated...
...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
...Huge cheer...
...Another cheer...
Soccer fans may have recognized a few old women's soccer personalities who dropped in to cheer their old team to victory. Former captain ELLEN HART '80, still running and back in Boston consulting Nike on new products, and SALLY GOLDSBERRY '80, currently studying at the Law School, braved the cold and wet to watch the Crimson dissect Smith...