Word: upbeat
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...role as the youthful Princess Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty," Ponomarenko dances with the broken-hearted delicacy of an innocent girl losing her first love to another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose, alternates well between his haughty, machismo corporal side and his madwith-passion lover side. And of course, Suarez and her various partners meld with...
...corporate discounts. Avis says the cars were then frequently driven by underage drivers and used as everything from taxis to trash haulers--and even on one occasion a hearse--and often returned banged up. Such controversies have dented Avis' "we try harder" image, but analysts are still upbeat about the company's longer-term prospects...
...sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
...natty dresser, with a close-shaven head and a gold earring in his left ear, Jones also discussed American politics, saying he is upbeat about youth today. He exhorted listeners to solve racial conflicts and made a plea to the class to do something about the dilemmas of America's inner cities and wield the power of music in a positive...
McCain-Feingold starts out this session as another long shot. But Feingold came away from the meeting upbeat: the President described fixing campaign finance as second only to balancing the budget. And McCain said Clinton promised to push for it "at every available forum," starting with his State of the Union address...