Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing seemed more unlikely that morning we met. I hadn't anticipated his sort of relentless good cheer on my first day in treatment. The center struck me as a cross between a mental hospital and a minimum-security prison. Yet Jay acted suspiciously happy to be there. I figured him a flake, one of those self-proclaimed talent agents who pass out business cards to aspiring actresses...
...balletomanes have much more to cheer about than Meditation. Farrell's painstaking stagings are to a run-of-the-mill City Ballet performance as a freshly cleaned Old Master canvas is to a fuzzy reproduction. Steps you took for granted--or never really saw before--now stand out in high relief, unexaggerated yet breathtakingly clear and stylish. Most memorable of all are excerpts from Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15, a notoriously difficult dance whose intricate patterns have rarely been realized with such crystalline simplicity...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataThe downside, if there is one amidst all this holiday cheer, is that this big earning (and spending) surge could cause the Fed to once again tighten its grip on the money supply. Alan Greenspan and the boys raised rates last week but signaled they were probably done tinkering until this whole Y2K thing blows over. But just as certainly as the credit card bills will come due in January, the Fed will reevaluate its position in the next year, and may feel that another rate hike will be necessary to keep everything on an even...
...Calfee will have to cheer her teammates on for at least a few more weeks, as she recovers from pneumonia. Considering all she has gone through to get to this point, Calfee shouldn't have a problem overcoming this latest obstacle...
...Harper's voice, so close to perfection that the imperfections hardly seem to matter and conversely add character and integrity. But this is not to say that Harper's voice is reminiscent of the feline mewls of Dylan. When his voice breaks, we don't cringe, we rather cheer for more. Indeed a more apt comparison would be the late reggae master Bob Marley, to whom Harper paid homage with a stirring rendition of "Oppression" mingled with Marley's "Get Up, Stand...