Word: upbeatness
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While the young, the wealthy and the Republican tended to be the most sanguine about the state of the nation, a majority of all demographic groups shared the upbeat mood. Even 53% of those making less than $ 10,000 agreed that things are going very or fairly well. The sunny outlook seems to reflect the current health of the economy: the lowest level of optimism during Reagan's term, 35%, came at the end of the last recession, in December...
...Mcdonald declined into extended archness of phrase and plot. He found his way again in last year's Flynn's In, featuring his other series character, Boston Police Official Francis X. Flynn. The film of Fletch, starring Chevy Chase, was a summer comedy hit, and Fletch Won continues the upbeat pace. Here the brash young man is observed in what Hollywood calls a "prequel," an adventure that takes place at the start of his career. Mcdonald has a discerning ear for the cocky conversation of youth and an eye for its pratfall bravado...
Armstrong is still as upbeat as he was in the morning, greeting his passengers with the same “How ya doin’?” or “What’s happenin’?” and the same smile...
...Leader draws its name from an early 1960s rock hit, one of dozens written by Ellie Greenwich, mostly with her then husband Jeff Barry. The book, concocted by a committee that clearly never arrived at any binding resolutions, seems unable to settle on whether it should showcase those mostly upbeat anthems or chronicle the composers' mostly downbeat lives. The songs are treated with an awkward mix of reverence and mockery; the lives are reduced to cartoons. Singer Darlene Love, a veteran of Greenwich's heyday, announces at the outset that she is entitled to recount the story because...
...discouraging week for the losers in the Saturn sweepstakes. Said New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean: "We're obviously disappointed. We knew we were a long shot, but we also knew we were in the competition." But Douglas Ross, Michigan's secretary of commerce, was more upbeat. "We win, no matter where the Saturn plant goes," he said. "If Saturn learns how to build cars competitive with the Japanese, that means the American auto industry centered in Michigan will survive and flourish...