Word: cheers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coach Larry Little may have little to cheer about with his Glory Squad. as journeyman QB Babe Laufenberg leads the offense...
...World League is making a token effort to develop international athletes. Each international franchise--Montreal, London, Barcelona and Frankfurt fields 3 non-American players including 2 from the team's country. Players like Frankfurt defensive end Olaf Hampel give the hometown crowd one of their own to cheer...
Nothing makes a moviegoer feel more isolated than sitting stony-faced through a comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer. Am I blind? Or are they seeing things? With the new hit MY COUSIN VINNY, we vote for seeing things. This fish-outta-wautta farce plops a rude Italo-American (Joe Pesci) into the cracker barrel of an Alabama town to defend his cousin (Ralph Macchio) on a murder rap. Pesci, a vacuum-packed version of all Three Stooges, struts and mugs, but gets most of his laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair...
...last week. The Commerce Department reported that newfound strength in consumer spending helped the nation's gross domestic product grow at an annual rate of 0.8% in the final three months of 1991, more than twice as fast as earlier estimates. While that number is still not much to cheer about, it does offer some evidence that Americans might be shaking off those recession blues. And the recovery, if it happens at all, will be something less than a surge...
Cancer survivors cheer when they hear Tsongas speak of the moment on "day zero" that he watched his bone marrow -- and his life -- being pumped back into his body. His candidacy has encouraged other survivors in the same way that wheelchair athletes cheer amputees and paraplegics. "It excites them to know that there's someone who's willing to talk about the disease, who's not afraid to say he's had cancer," says Peggy Baker, director of the cancer- survivors program at the University of Chicago Hospitals...