Word: chipper
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Frida Kahlo, the Mexican surrealist-communist painter, lived her life in ghastly pain, the result of a crippling accident. But pain, though knowable, is also indescribable. Alas, Frida is one of those chipper biopics in which the heroine (Salma Hayek) cheerfully endures her suffering while incidentally creating her art and carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida...
...Monkees demonstrated long ago, there's no better medium than television for putting chipper, derivative pop singers on top of the singles charts. KELLY CLARKSON, 20, the former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini...
...HUPD officer filed a report of a wood chipper stolen from Canaday Hall...
...selection of intriguing martinis, such as the Arabic Coffee Martini with Stolichnaya Vanil, splashes of Kahlua and Frangelico and a shot of Arabic Coffee; and the Moonlight Martini, a concoction of Bombay Sapphire with Parfait Amour, fresh lemon and a splash of Yellow Chartreuse. Under the guidance of our chipper, black-clad server, we took a bottle of Taurino Notarpanaro, a versatile and smooth Italian red that complemented our adventurous appetite for variety. Alas, as a reminder that we were in Cambridge and not Europe or the actual Middle East, our server dutifully asked us for proper age identification upon...
Especially for the grimly chipper Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt). Spotting what sounds like a perfect soul mate in a personals column, she also spies trouble: the ad is in the lesbian section. But, still, what's wrong with having an innocent drink with Helen Cooper (Heather Juergensen)? Nothing--except that Helen is a lot more decisive than Jessica. The design for living they develop can hardly be called a romp. It is, instead, an edgy exploration of role playing and sexual choice in a climate where all options are acceptable--even to Jessica's mom, who is not as traditionally suburban...