Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press of being unfair to him. A TV trial, he says, poses special problems: "Having these TV cameras in the court all the time is a no-win situation for me. If I'm looking like I'm having a good day in court, if I'm too jovial, people say he's not serious or concerned enough. If I'm looking worried or upset, then it looks like I did it. For those who read all the way to the end, the back contains a chronology of his life -- beginning in 1949 ("O.J. gets rickets") to 1989 ("Nicole calls...
...part, Mr. Hilditch seems uneasily enigmatic, even to himself. He lives in a substantial house he inherited from his mother and maintains an air of jovial respectability with his co-workers. When he recalls the other young women he has befriended, he does not allow himself to think of what happened to them. His interior monologues are conducted in euphemisms. Pondering the arrival of the Irish girl, "he finds himself exhilarated by the circumstances that have been presented to him, and only regrets that the ordained brevity of this relationship is an element in those circumstances also...
...this, at least and at most, for the jovial new suspense movie I Love Trouble: it knows what to do with its star. Screenwriters Charles Shyer (who also directed) and Nancy Meyers (who also produced) realize that adventure with a comic twist is the most suitable genre for an actress who is no great shakes in the emoting department but has brightness and vulnerability to burn. So they made her character a cub reporter who hasn't figured out how attractive, resourceful or brave she is -- a heroine in the process of becoming. It's a nicely contoured outfit...
...lyrics are from Doggystyle, the debut album by gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, the label's star. Doggystyle, released Nov. 23, sold 800,000 copies in its first week and enters this week's Billboard charts at No. 1. Associates of Snoop lounge around Death Row, loose and jovial. Snoop, 22, smiles along, autographing posters of himself. Despite the happy mood, he has grave legal troubles. Police say that in West Los Angeles one evening in August, he was driving when his bodyguard shot a man to death from the car. Charged with being an accomplice to murder, Snoop says...
...restaurant like Victor's Cafe, and you know half the people -- the writers, the stars and the reps." Many of them live in Miami: the Venezuelan singing idol Jose Luis Rodriguez, known as El Puma; the Dominican merengue star Juan Luis Guerra; and Don Francisco, the pudgy, jovial host of Latin TV's most popular show ever, Sabado Gigante, based -- where else? -- in Miami...