Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Want to Hold Your Hand, the first Beatles single to get much airplay in the U.S., premiered on Nov. 26, 1963, the day after John Kennedy's funeral; the song's chipper vitality offered instant reprieve from the tragedy. The Beatles' last album to be issued, Let It Be, came out the month of the Kent State killings. The group's music was the soundtrack of the '60s, and the Anthology footage makes for a compelling, long-form music video, a reminder of what the fuss was all about...
...senior circuit the Braves, stifled in their last two trips to the Fall Classic, looked to the likes of Chipper Jones and Mike Mordecai to provide some positive October memories...
...mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho...
...Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn't promise Utopia. If the Standard can shake up its friends in every issue, it could become the standard by which the other guys are measured...
...career couple would spend their nights reading aloud from government documents? That anyone, much less the sophisticated lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them had been members of the Screen Actors Guild when F.D.R. was President, there might be no Social Security...