Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film has a salutary scope and bustle and enough kick in the fireball special effects to make audiences cheer--sure, it's the end of the world, but you can still party like it's 1999. As Will Smith says, "You can sell an alien attack better than the old days when you could see the zipper on the back of the alien's costume." Minute by minute, though, things look mighty familiar. If Forrest Gump was Everyman, ID4 is Everymovie, a browse through the whole film catalog: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Strangelove, Close Encounters, Alien...
...city to take this sort of defeat lying down, Boston has a spectacular tradition of Fourth of July events, from parades to festivals to concerts, that will make you stand up and cheer...
...rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some observers began composing Bubka's professional obituary. Less than two months later, however, he was back in form and set a new record at a meet in Italy. The ascent has continued, with only minor interruptions, ever since...
Free cable is, after all, the force that binds this movie together. In the world of "The Cable Guy," Carey, the giver of cable, becomes the brazen icon of a false god, pulling a motley crew of followers under his spell and making them cheer his vaguely pornographic karaoke rendition of "Somebody to Love...
Some business happened to take me to Seattle on the day the Sonics were down 3-zip to the Bulls, so naturally I hoped to cheer everybody up while I was in town. As soon as I got off the plane, it became obvious that I had my work cut out for me. The headline of the Post-Intelligencer was HOME GROAN. The Seattle Times headline was READY TO CRUMBLE...