Word: sunnier
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Following the events depicted in A Civil Action, a devastated Schlichtmann moved to Hawaii, opened a lighting business and vowed to give up the practice of law. After the tortures of the Woburn case, which wiped out nine years of his life, escaping to sunnier shores seemed like a reasonable response. But Hawaii held him for only three years. Now he's back East with new clients in polluted communities in New York and Massachusetts as well as in Toms River. Has he forgotten the lesson he learned? Is he hunting for another monster lawsuit that will crush him into...
Paul McCartney, born in 1942 and destined to become Lennon's songwriting soul mate, seemed a sunnier type: well mannered, level-headed, all that. But he had weathered trauma of his own, losing his mother to breast cancer in his early teens. McCartney encountered Lennon in the logical way, given the times and the two boys' musical interests: on the skiffle scene...
...There's definitely a certain difference of personality," adds Karpinski. "Somehow I think it has to do with the weather. People from places with better weather tend to have sunnier personalities...
...compounding of existential interest that, according to U.S. figures, has pushed the average life expectancy to nearly 76, with many Americans living well beyond. Less conservative demographers are more optimistic still, believing a child born in America today can realistically look forward to living 100 years. Last week the sunnier scenarios got a boost when the National Cancer Institute reported that between 1990 and 1995, U.S. death rates from cancer fell more than 3%, the first sustained decline since...
...young fans in Italy to the contrary--was less straight jazz than pop on an elegant upswing. There is no doubt that Billie Holiday had a darker genius. Lady Day's jazz was steeped in the magic and mystery and doom of the blues. Ella's art had a sunnier side, a more adaptive quality that let her be, if not an absolute original, a peerless interpreter, a superb vocal actress who could snuggle into Porter's playfulness or Arlen's melodrama or Ellington's chromatic gymnastics with equal agility. Billie Holiday's music was a lifeline. She lived...