Word: cheering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This suggestion isn't for the band, but rather for the cheerleaders. Make your cheers short and sweet as well, something that the crowd might want to cheer along...
What Steve has instead is awful, desperate Al (Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The script, by Brooks, Andrew Bergman and Monica Johnson, draws a specific parallel between Steve and another primitive creature imported to amuse jaded New Yorkers -- King Kong -- and it is a measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids...
...thousands of Haitians who flocked to Port-au-Prince airport last Monday afternoon had come to cheer, applaud or just stare at the newly arrived U.S. troops. Once there, they could not resist the exhilarating urge to shout their joy at the imminent return of the man whose name could not be spoken and whose picture could not be displayed for the past three years. "Vive Titid!" they cried, invoking their affectionate sobriquet for exiled President Jean- Bertrand Aristide. "Down with Cedras!" Suddenly, two Haitian army officers appeared, dragging a skinny young man who was moaning pitifully. His face...
Well, there you have it. I'm sensing that I'm getting crotchety, so I'd better go rent "City Lights" and "The Great Dictator" to cheer me up. These two Charlie Chaplin films are, to my mind, two of the greatest comedies of all time. Which reminds me: my next column, unless I get a really interesting letter, will be about some of the great film comedies of all time and what makes them great. So if you have any thoughts on the matter, send them...
...break, our FOP leader though it a good idea to initiate his group to both the elitism and cynicism at and about Harvard. He taught us this little cheer, which is to be spoken in a deliberately slow and pronounced British accent...