Word: cheerful
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...times ahead. There's still a real economy out there - and it's still hurting. Shares in blue-chip companies fell yesterday as layoffs in places like PepsiCo loomed. In the days ahead, Wall Street will receive several reality checks that could take the fizz out of any good cheer brought on by the Dow's biggest one-day gain since...
...have a point. Whether she's dealing with a depressed book store clerk or the fact that her bicycle is stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes...
...about them. Still, for all his good nature and for all of Hawkins' energy, Happy-Go-Lucky did not play for me as a comedy. Its true subject seems to be anger. Call it deflected anger - a rage that is turned aside not solely by Poppy's relentless good cheer but by the fact that beneath her manner she is a sensible manager of relationships that are often on the verge of going out of control...
...more difficult for him. It's a great performance, in which unhappy autobiographical details leak out through perpetually clenched teeth. Scott's student is, of course, his opposite. He hates her boots - inappropriate, he believes, for serious engagement with the auto's pedals - and he hates the casual good cheer she brings into the claustrophobic car they are obliged to share, and above all he despises himself for being drawn to her. We know that eventually he's going to flame out disastrously, but the suspense we feel as we wait for that to happen is exquisite - funny to observe...
...decision to cut interest rates could cheer Asian investors concerned that a deep economic slump in the West will derail Asia's export-driven economies. The quandary facing Asia's policymakers is that credit is tightening and stocks are plunging due to circumstances mostly beyond their control. "Central banks in Asia don't have the ability to fix the problem," said Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong...