There was an atmosphere of cheerful chaos at the unofficial opening of Beetle House, a Tim barton-themed bar in New York's East Village, on Wednesday night.
"A year after the memorial's opening, the almost-cheerful atmosphere at what was supposed to be a solemn site has appalled first responders and victims' families," the New York Post wrote in September 2012.
The opening gambit earned a cheerful laugh from the gathered great and good of Scotland's arts world.
Still, the ensemble's expressive range was striking: the Dvorak-like warmth of the Andante cantabile proved a stark contrast to both the strained, ghostly dissonances of the work's opening Adagio and the cheerful briskness of the finale.
Samaranch's cheerful gesture came early in the opening day of a three-day I.O.C. session leading up to the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics.
Aiding Leonard in his quest, or perhaps using the blank slate of his mind for their own ulterior purposes, are a cheerful fellow named Teddy Joe Pantolianoo), the dead man in the opening scene, and a glum bartender named Natalie (Carrie-ANatalies).
In 1967, within weeks of the New York opening of the brutal "Dutchman" film, the cheerful musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," an adaptation of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip, opened at Theater 80 St. Marks in Manhattan.
Coyle emerged, gruesomely knackered, with the cheerful, legally dodgy yet unassailable: "How's our strangler doing?" This opening was his; give the man a spin-off.
The opening act was the Black Eyed Peas, a mind-numbingly cheerful hip-hop quartet.
Its opening lines have some of the high squeaking pitch of one of Paul's cheerful bursts of indignation: "The law perverted!
