Word: happiest
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...employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other's language. Embraced, contented, he is still alone with his thoughts...
...loneliest goalie is the happiest goalie. The fewer shots, the better. Just ask Penn goalie Susan Gatland, who barely lifted a stick last year and is now wearing an Ivy League championship ring...
...same girl, and somehow all three kiss at once. And just when you think the movie will provide some familiar gags and gasps, it introduces yet another pretzel plot twist. By the end, you should be working so hard to keep up with Innerspace that you've earned the happiest of headaches...
...Tennessee. His first name seems to be Al, and the subject of his jottings, which make up this book, is the remarkable change he experiences after receiving a letter from his girlfriend of six years, who is doing postdoctoral work in Norway, "letting me know in the subtlest, happiest way imaginable that I would not be joining her there as we had planned upon completion of my degree." Being jilted is nothing new, as nearly everyone who has ever lived could testify, but Al takes a laboratory technician's interest in his own ensuing depression. He quits graduate school...
...glad developments, though, the happiest were in Milwaukee, where a couple of strangers named Tom Trebelhorn and Juan Nieves momentarily turned the American League East upside down (restoring Cleveland to the bottom). On a drizzling night in Baltimore, Nieves no-hit the Orioles last week for the Brewers' ninth victory in a season begun perfectly. "Games like this can make a grown man cry," said Trebelhorn, 39, the most anonymous skipper in the major leagues...