Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity from invading pity...
...time Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrived on the scene half an hour later, police billies had subdued the rioters. Lee soothed them with an apology for the "misunderstanding" and a pep talk in faultless Malay on his favorite theme, the satisfaction of Singapore's multiracial way of life. When Lee put down his bullhorn, the recruits cheered him heartily. Still, it was a close call. Communal rioting in July and September 1964 took more than 100 lives and caused severe property damage. Though Lee told the recruits that they could certainly remain in the Army, it seemed equally...
...clock ticks away, while rescuers all around town carefully prolong the agony and news photographers batter at his door, Poitier behaves precisely like an Oscar-winning actor who has to work up an hour or more of excitement with a hot line as his only prop and such depressing pep talk as "You're something all your own, just as I am." Bancroft retaliates by spelling out her problem in flashbacks, and the gist of the fiction is that her husband (Steven Hill) rejected her when he discovered that he was not the father of their son. Awash...
...ball around for half a minute. But with ten seconds to go, forward John Scott was called for travelling as he attempted a routine pass to Gene Dressler. As the Huskies called time out, Cabot gym reverberated with yells, the shrieks of cheerleaders, and the blaring of a Dixieland pep band...
...this time it was at the huge social-security complex on the outskirts of Baltimore, where they are negotiating with the Government to get their share of medicare. Most insurance companies now realize that medicare, far from being the disaster they once predicted, may prove to be a welcome pep pill for their industry...