Word: gleeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heisler and art director Arthur Hochstein came up with the idea of shooting our Person of the Year inside an Amazon shipping box, complete with plastic-foam chips. Not only was Bezos game but his cheerfulness never flagged even after he'd spent nearly an hour in cardboard. Bezos' gleeful reaction when he saw a Polaroid shot of the image that day: "This is really weird...
...doormat read GO AWAY, and his roar and mane were leonine. But underneath that mask of grumpiness was one of the softest and kindest men I've ever met. He was constantly interweaving the lives of the people he knew, making sure they were cared for. Joe could be gleeful as a schoolboy about the success of Catch-22, and he often said how grateful he was for the G.I. Bill--otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford college...
...revisions to the city charter lost by a margin of 3 to 1. The mayor's opponents characterized his proposed revisions as a power play, designed to strengthen City Hall's control over a wide array of programs and initiatives. As Giuliani conceded defeat, his Democratic foes were making gleeful predictions of the vote's effect on next year's Senate race, which is expected to pit the mayor against brand-new New Yorker Hillary Clinton...
Most patients aren't just happy with the results; they're positively gleeful. "Everything is so clear," says Yvonne Chapman, a registered nurse in Los Angeles who had her corneas reshaped six months ago. "I still go into the bathroom before bed every night to wash my hands and take my contacts out because I think I have them in." Never mind that LASIK costs upwards of $2,500 an eye and isn't covered by most insurance companies. We're talking about seeing your toes in the shower...
...Bush in California on Thursday. Compare to Bill Clinton on the same day - "I will not sign a bill that turns its back on these hard-working families" - and you can certainly see why GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay is less than pleased. "It's obvious," DeLay snapped after a gleeful Democrat read him Bush?s comments in the middle of negotiations over that very issue, "the governor's got a lot to learn about Congress...