Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aggreseively enjoyable, Red All Over leaps feet first into the American mainstream. The music is upbeat, danceable, and the spirit is fun; the combination of some devastatingly arch lyrics and beautiful instrumentials recommends itself as music for repeated listening. Studying to its insistently noticeable backdrop is less likely Red All Over has some interesting questions to ask, and its purpose is not to disappoint with quick, cute answers...
...Imperial Wizard sought to strike an upbeat note. "This will not hamper our operations. It preserves our cash flow and freezes our obligation. We will pay all creditors 100% plus interest, and that includes the IRS," declared Wilkinson, whose wife Barbara, the Klan secretary, signed the documents. "But you won't find that bookkeeper around here anymore...
...some sharp maneuvering, Boeing's prospects are looking brighter. In the past six months, the company's stock has shot up from 15 to 36⅞, and investment analysts still think it is a buy. Boeing Chairman T.A. Wilson is less effusive than the analysts but still upbeat. Says he: "It will take some time for the airlines to start making money again. But we expect the traffic to grow...
There are problems with this constructive and upbeat vision, to be sure. It's not clear from Grieder's formulation how a new wave of media-inspired citizen activists will be any different from the old wave (Nader's Raiders, say, or even the Moral Majority) which has ossified into plain old special interest group politics. Grieder also doesn't assess the practical likelihood of the "reinvention" of news reporting, a revolution that seems unlikely given the growing economic constraints on newspapers and the inherent time limitations of network news shows. Still Grieder rightly observes, "American democracy is in trouble...
...view from the gift shop was upbeat as could be. In addition to the aforementioned paperweight/pencil holder, they had big fat pens with the U. N. insignia on it, and little dolls from various nations, that all smile at each other. What I didn't realize was that it was 1972, and the U. N. had spent almost a decade waffling on Vietnam. Soviet Jewry, and most of the other major calamities then facing the world. But it didn't matter: I had the ideals of international cooperation drilled into me well...