Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many tourists expected that the Games were going to be used as a Soviet showcase. In fact, the loudspeaker systems outside the stadiums, which could have been used for propaganda spiels, played pleasant medleys of international songs, the American representative being Sunny ("Thank you for that smile upon your face"). Thousands of flagpoles along the city boulevards and atop buildings bore the Olympic flag. In the stadiums themselves, the most persistent colors were those of the Finns, who waved their white-and-blue pennants, some on poles that telescoped up to 30 ft. or 40 ft., at the slightest indication...
Situated on the southern shore of beautiful Lake Winnebago, the Wisconsin city of Fond du Lac (pop. 34,400) appears to be a pleasant haven far removed from the poverty and pain of the nation's recession-struck cities. Peopled mainly by second-and third-generation descendants of German immigrants, the city prides itself on being the home of the thrifty, the hard working and the tidy. Houses are neatly painted, lawns well kept, streets clean. Main Street is currently being resurfaced, and the perky detour sign reads: PARDON OUR PROGRESS...
...hard and dizzy, Saint James mousy and distracted, Curtin self-pitying yet capable. When called upon to improvise a striptease in order to cover her pals' getaway, she is both game and sexy. Her developing relationship with a shy policeman, expertly played by Dabney Coleman, adds a pleasant grace note to an edgy, insinuating comedy...
Schumann's three Fastasiestucke, Op. 73, were composed for clarinet, but the composer authorized performance by violin or cello. Moye imbues the work with proper impetuosity. Moye has also resurrected a pleasant three-movement Sonata in G Major by the little-known Jean-Baptiste Breval (1756-1825), who published many such pieces in the 1780s...
...nation's 35.2 million Social Security recipients are receiving a pleasant surprise this month. Their July checks have been increased by a helpful 14.3%. Like about one-quarter of all Americans, they are receiving a cost of living adjustment (COLA) designed to ease the pain of inflation. As double-digit price rises continue to erode their incomes, many weary consumers see a COLA as the pause that refreshes. But critics charge that automatic income adjustments may push the U.S. economy into a permanent inflation high...