Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more than two hours later Cleary repeated the ritual, this time with bear hugs and gleeful shouts. The reason for the exponential increase in enthusiasm: the Crimson, led by two goals apiece from freshmen Mark Fusco and Greg Olson, had just trounced a stunned pack of Huskies, 8-2, before 1850 at the Bright Center...
...whorehouse would only excite, well, Texans. The Aggie chorus line is the hottest thing north of San Antone, but performs only one number (you may have seen it on the Tony awards--it was the one with all the embarrassing bleeps). Whorehouse makes up for its adult language with gleeful immaturity, unabashedly the source of the play's success. Remember, this is the land of Lone Star beer and the Dallas Cowpeople--how can you get serious about...
...discomfiting question remains: what makes these films so riveting, when we would have little interest or patience for the same stuff on paper or in the hands of a less talented director? It is largely Carpenter's gleeful knowingness, in constructing a situation and co-ordinating an action, with regard to what his audience expects or surmises from any given scene. He tugs at the nerves most sharply through sly scare-tactics: close calls, delays, false alarms, the expectation and possibility of violence as often as the brutal thing itself. He can make sudden action at once surprising and coherent...
Delta House's first episode, written by the Lampoon veterans who created the movie, is always amusing. Alas, the original's gleeful sexual reveries cannot be duplicated on TV, but the antiauthoritarian tone is intact. There are even gags about Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Arnold Toynbee, thus placing Delta House roughly two intellectual cuts above CBS's pompous The Paper Chase. Let the viewer beware, however, for future episodes will be written by different hands. Should ABC fail to exercise strong quality control, this promising spin-off could quickly go into a tailspin...
...entertainment executives were furious at the prospect of being made scapegoats. As their contributions to Gore began drying up, Gore met with them privately in August 1999 and noted pointedly that the study (the same one he now touts) had been Bill Clinton's idea, not his - comments the gleeful executives soon repeated to the Los Angeles Times...