Word: upbeatness
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...gaiety left in that business. When I first started modeling the ambiance was like a party, it was so fun. Models like Pat Cleveland and Jerry Hall had so much energy and personality and they had fun together. The runway shows back there were much more upbeat - even in the way we walked down the runway, greeting people, turning, smiling. Now they are just told to look the same and be impersonal. I walk on the runway like I walk down the street...
...followed up by taking first in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:06.99 was nearly three seconds ahead of Brown’s top swimmer.“[The freshmen] are a great force,” Mills said. “They’re really upbeat and they’re great to practice with.” Freshman Helen Pitchik also won a race of her own, touching the wall in 2:21.63 in the 200-yard breaststroke.“They’re a great group of girls,” junior...
...After months of upbeat assurances, Ahmadinejad finally admitted last month that economic problems had compelled him to recalculate the 2009 budget to reflect an oil price between $30 and $35 a barrel rather than $60. He also drafted a bill to scrap lavish fuel and electricity subsidies, which give Iranians some of the world's cheapest gas (just 36 a gallon), even though it has to be imported from foreign refineries. The move is a high-stakes gamble for the President, who is up for re-election in June and is already cast by his opponents as the cause...
...Avett Brothers I discovered the Avett Brothers while browsing in one of those iconic hippie shops in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The album was playing on the store's sound system, and I was instantly smitten. It is impossible not to grin while listening to this infectiously upbeat blend of folk, rock and bluegrass, all played on acoustic instruments and with whimsical, witty lyrics to boot...
...borne all the signs of failure might yet prove pivotal to bringing an end to the current violence in Gaza. But as is often the case with such clashes in the region, a final resolution may turn out to be the fruit of a particularly chilling horror. The upbeat response to the Franco-Egyptian proposal came just hours after an Israeli mortar strike hit a U.N. school in Gaza, killing 39 Palestinians, many of them children. "I don't think you can say that one terrible event will change everything itself," the French official says. "But it may have helped...