Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors were presumably already committed too deeply to their upbeat thesis when they heard of Abbie's death. I can imagine the crisis control meeting betweent the authors and their editors: "How the hell can we make this positive and still sell lots of books...
They decided to close the book with a passage about Hoffman's funeral, chock-full of warm, touchy-feely stories about those assembled there. Included are upbeat lyrics of a Pete Seeger song about Abbie's spirt living on and a nice blurb about Abbie's mom clapping...
Hijuelos, 37, author of 1985's Our House in the Last World, catches the rhythms and flavors of the streets, nightclubs and Latin family life. Castillo is all melody, by turns upbeat and melancholy. By age 60, his best performances on bandstand and bedstead behind him, he occupies a room in an East Harlem flop mockingly called the Hotel Splendour. There, his music out of style, his body failing, he thrives on memories of songs sung and women loved. Yet, as Hijuelos conveys with art and sympathy, the Mambo King is to be admired and envied...
...ignoramuses on this committee. The IRS world that you describe . . . it's like the land of Oz, and you are the wizards." Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr. delivered that blistering rebuke last week to Michael Murphy, deputy commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. What provoked Barnard was Murphy's upbeat assessment of his agency's zeal for rooting out cases of misconduct among its own employees. But dozens of current and former IRS workers painted a different and disturbing picture of the agency in three days of testimony before the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs subcommittee...
Over at city hall, Mayor Officer somehow manages to remain determinedly upbeat, citing an ambitious $437 million plan for developing the East St. Louis riverfront that would include a cargo port, recycling center and high- rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city...