Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morris is a gleeful genius who preaches what he's paid to preach, who can teach it round or teach it flat. He is someone lost so far inside the game that he breaks its most basic rules--Don't leak to the other side, Don't sell out your clients--and doesn't seem to notice. "Dick has a blind spot on character," says a key Clinton aide. "The President sees that, and it makes him think about his own blind spots. That's a real service...
Full of big-hearted, crowd-pleasing excitement, the solid, well-crafted "Independence Day" has barrelled onto the summer movie scene. The movie's real-life cast and gleeful, what-if approach toward alien invasions work wonderfully, in pleasant contrast with the string of choreographed stunts and signature one-liners that pass for action movies these days...
President Clinton offhandedly told a Houston campaign audience that he had raised taxes "too much" in his 1993 budget package. After gleeful Republicans pounced on the comment and fuming Democrats let out the political equivalent of a primal scream (many placed their careers on the line when they backed the President in 1993), Clinton retreated and said voting for that package had been "the right thing...
Keeve's lens roves over a host of intriguing characters, from Mizrahi's mothah, no mean fashion critic--especially to her son--to customer Eartha Kitt, whose gleeful shimmying and frothy poodles prompt Mizrahi to muse, "It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dogs...
...DEMOCRATIC PARTY WERE A movie, its title might be Small and Smaller. House G.O.P. leaders were especially gleeful about the prospect last week, saying they expect to preside this Wednesday over a caucus consisting of 232 members, one more than usual. The addition, they said, would be Greg Laughlin of Texas, who abruptly resigned two weeks ago from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Reports from Laughlin's home district indicated that he was about to leave the Democrats entirely. In anticipation, Republicans were signing a letter to welcome their newest recruit...