Word: livening
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Enron are interesting, but the accusation that Bush let Enron plunder California to bring down Gray Davis seems controversial for controversy’s sake, particularly in light of the slim evidence used for proof. Many scenes smack of afterthought, as if the filmmakers realized they needed to liven up some of the more tedious stretches with political controversy, random shots of Ahnold...
...focused on the human, fallible side of the criminal-justice system; they were good preparation for this most idiosyncratic aspect of the trial process. Even for these producers, this could not have been an easy pitch. ("You've got 12 people in a room talking, and--guys? Hello?") To liven things up, The Jury cuts antically to the trial, lawyer negotiations and meetings in chambers. In this sense, it resembles Law & Order, which must have made the pitch much easier...
...braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume but because she felt the only rationale for it was that they had 'reached a quiet point in the script and needed my body to liven things up' ... A warm, giggly sort of girl, she has a sense of humor (asked once when she first realized she was beautiful, she replied, 'Just after the makeup man got here; before that it was touch and go') and a developing shrewdness about her own power...
...spread all the way to Alaska. He not only plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, guitar and contra piano, but also wrote his Harvard admissions essay on contra and community building. “My admissions officer wrote me and said, ‘We need you here to liven things up!’” he says. And that’s exactly what contra and Newman are all about...
...liven up the rather dry French toast, Stone offered Bonny Doon Framboise, which tasted like viciously spiked cough syrup—cloying sweet, but strangely astringent. “Framboise is the French for blackberry or raspberry,” she said, sipping it. “Yes, blackberry, I think. Definitely blackberry.” Framboise is the French word for raspberry...