Word: enthusiasm
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...downs, Berlusconi has remained a unique figure in the West, who plays by his own rules and often doesn't seem to suffer the consequences. Still, although the election result is a personal vindication for Berlusconi, there's little sign of the optimism and enthusiasm that he generated in 2001. Most polls show that voters on both sides of the political spectrum were generally disillusioned with Italy's political class, even though 80% of the electorate showed up at the polls. A Roman taxi driver, Filippo, who'd voted for Berlusconi, was listening to the radio, just as Veltroni...
Jennie A. Wasserman of the Sweet Divines, meanwhile, expressed enthusiasm about the spirit of the Ball...
...suffers from cystic fibrosis, a disease that Parise became interested in while writing the screenplay. “My co-writer and I actually heard a segment…that was about a young girl who actually had cystic fibrosis but was living her life with so much enthusiasm, really living her life fully. This is something we really believe in and could hold true for everybody,” she said. Parise and co-writer Peter Stebbings used this idea as the inspiration for Jill. “She lives in every moment, takes risks, is messy...
...prove stressful. Both Fallon and O’Brien said that they would only take a week’s break after competing at the World Championship: Nationals are coming up in July, and soon the competitive cycle will begin anew. Nevertheless, each freshman’s enthusiasm for dancing and everything related to it reaches poetic heights. “Everybody knows everybody in Irish dancing,” O’Brien says. “It’s such a world...” “...inside of itself,” Fallon adds, completing...
...parade pales in comparison to the current mood of cliffhanger ambiguity that still hangs over the Democratic nomination. Suddenly, what has often been an automatic nomination process has been ignited with uncertainty and thus interest. The theatrical element to Obama and Clinton’s tussle has generated public enthusiasm at a fever pitch, generating far more media coverage of the Democratic candidates and leaving the political veteran McCain overshadowed. As voices in the media have frequently reminded us, the prospect of either the first female or first black president is a revolutionary one indeed (especially in contrast to another...