Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hooray for Hollywood, do-gooders might cheer. Whether from conviction or calculation, the town is born-again nice. Nearly extinct this summer are the killer thrillers, with their stark violence, sleazy sex, punk vocabulary -- and R ratings. Taking their place is the children's film, in which kids and grownups take reassuring life lessons. At heart these PG movies are After School Specials for the kids, and after-work seminars for dads. It's Father's Day all summer, and the Kidding of America all year long...
Half the fans can't even see the game, but they still cheer. They're so high up they need oxygen between quarters, but it doesn't stop them. If Michigan scores, the place goes bananas. They are having...
...half-step forward in what Dutschke called the "long march" toward human freedom. It helped inspire the worldwide feminist movement and the resistance to communist authoritarianism that climaxed in the vast, peaceful revolutions of '89. For these reasons alone, the rebellions of '68 deserve at least one brief, nonpartisan cheer: Hats off to '68 and -- depending on your personal and political preference -- also shoes, shirts, ties, bras, plus blindfolds and manacles of any kind...
Show business loves two kinds of news: the gritty comeback and the sparkling debut. One sentimentalizes the past; the other sentimentalizes the future. Both burnish the legend of individuality in a largely collaborative medium. By this yardstick, Broadway ought to cheer sevenfold the last and best musical of the season, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Its U.S. debut next week will turn the clock back to high noon for four long-absent old hands aged about 60 and herald the dawn of three substantial younger talents...
...game was at home. The Crimson finally would get to see the beautiful green grass of Ohiri field. And the fans would actually cheer a Harvard goal...