Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a lot of talent on this team -- among many strengths that can be cited, freshmen Mauro Keller Sarmiento and Peter Sergienko have been pleasant surprises, and two more freshmen are expected to play today...
...after all. Before that happened--before the well-meaning crowd of mourners that had gathered to give their friend a good Irish wake had been so rudely interrupted by the sight of the corpse singing and dancing and leading the cheers--the party at Anthony's had been a pleasant one. No outsiders, no political manipulators, certainly no big-name media types--they were all over at Dukakis's. The reporters who were there, like myself, had come prepared to write a short piece about the loser. And, of course, Eddie's friends were there...
...credible plot development or convincing character. What the movie offers instead is a few benign laughs, some neatly staged action sequences and a bit of appealing moralizing about the evils of materialism. As long as one doesn't demand too much of it, Corvette Summer delivers a very pleasant two hours of escape...
...while Sheehan's fine showing was to be expected, Meyer's was a pleasant surprise...
...wait--what about Tommy O'Neill?" (Tip O'Neill's son, cautious and pleasant but maybe not the brightest guy who ever lived?) "He has to run with Ed King--you can't vote separately for Lieutenant Governor and Governor in Massachusetts--so if Hatch wins, he'll be washed up. Old Tip won't like that. And he certainly won't want Mike Dukakis, the man who helped destroy his son's rise to the governorship, to get a Cabinet post. He won't even want to see Dukakis in Washington." "So if Carter knows what's good...