Word: joviality
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...another unglamorous couple with a lot to work out. But on a June night -- after, Lorena later claimed, John had raped her -- she cut off his penis. The organ was surgically reattached, and all's well that ends in media bewitchment: John, acquitted of the rape, appears as a jovial guest on the Howard Stern Show, while Lorena, whose case is still pending, has become something of a feminist folk hero...
Rather has been anchor now for five years. After a rocky start (his manner seemed too frenetic), Rather has hit the top and stayed there. The new CBS team, headed by the jovial, bearded impresario Van Gordon Sauter (now president of CBS News), abandoned Walter Cronkite's meat-and-potatoes style. Instead of someone in Washington reporting the news from official statements, CBS sent camera crews out in the field to picture school closings and factory layoffs. Sauter likes to talk about capturing the big emotional "moments." He chewed his staff out when it failed to show a picture...
...observer, “second-guessing” doesn’t appear to be part of the Herrmann vocabulary. Off the field, his spirit is jovial, self-assured, and straightforward—with a dash of raucous humor...
...observer, “second-guessing” doesn’t appear to be part of the Herrmann vocabulary. Off the field, his spirit is jovial, self-assured, and straightforward—with a dash of raucous humor...
...that “other clubs will say, ‘Tell all your friends about us.’ We would rather you kept it quiet—we’re not sure the Chinese know we’re here.” Jenkins’ jovial warning aside, the cutting-edge comics at the Comedy Studio are a must-see attraction for all Cantabrigians...