Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wednesday, Feb. 4 From Meg To: Tom The best thing I saw today was a very gleeful bicyclist zooming uptown, stopped right near me on the corner of 57th. While he was waiting to cross he started playing his Game Boy which he had slung around his neck...
...particular all afternoon. But Linden didn't just run; he ran right into a Yale cornerback. He could have slid, could have avoided the defense, but that has never been his style. And when the ball popped out of his hands, only to be recovered by a gleeful Eli, The Game was lost for good...
...When I Woke, and was soon followed by Glabicki's playing of the opening guitar riffs. The crowd, quite simply, went wild. The energy practically shot through the roof--suddenly jocks in baseball caps, hemp-wearing, adolescents and men with very long bears were jumping up and down in gleeful unison. Glabicki and the rest of the band slowed down the joy by receding into the darker chords from "Laugh as the Sun," and built up suspense until everything exploded back into the blinding sunnyness of "Martyr" with an almost orgasmic cry of, "Hey!" Although the rest of the evening...
Both in person and in the pages he produced each week, Newsweek editor MAYNARD PARKER had an edgy energy that was rooted in a passion for the news. Often tightly coiled and always ready to spring, he had the gleeful ability to rip up his magazine as it was going to press in order to make it more exciting. Every Monday I felt the special kinship that comes from having tried to pull off the same feats; I could admire the smart way he had packaged a cover, spotted a trend or elicited a nugget of reporting...
That's a lot to ask. Still, we can at least ask that harsh verdicts not be rendered with the gleeful zeal that has been emanating from some parts of Washington these days. In a judge, a touch of indifference isn't an altogether bad thing...