In today's culture of spin, PR, embedded war reporting and celebrity obsession, and with corporations owning most news media, the film is also a thrilling cry for truth, harking back to a time when politics (and journalism) really seemed to matter.
"Look, Papa," Mila cries, thrilled, when Paul walks in the door.
We could go anywhere and the boys thrilled to the cries of "climb aboard" as we headed off in their magic bus to yet another perfect spot.
"The reaction in the chamber was the most enthusiastic, exuberant, exhilarating -- I mean we were all crying -- thrilled -- you know, we just knew she would make a triumphant return," Wasserman Schultz said, becoming visibly upset.
The fighting ended in 2003, but outside the windows of Sirleaf's S.U.V., the skeletons of abandoned buildings and the cries, at once thrilled and desperate, of the onlookers along the president's route were signs of the country's position near last on any list of how well the world's nations are functioning.
The vast populations of developing countries aren't thrilled about the elite West's new cries of "move the goalposts," either, just as they're starting to see middle-class lifestyles percolate through their historically subsistence-level populations.
"I thought I'd break down and cry after seven minutes," he said, thrilled.
And all the rest of us thrilled in the schadenfreude of reading about him crying at a board meeting and complaining that he wasn't happy anymore.
The crowd was just as thrilled for Nagasu, who had finished fifth last year after crying as she took the ice for her long program.
The observers were thrilled to see them leap in unison and utter a synchronized cry of alarm.
I cried not because I was sad but because I was so thrilled that an institution like Sesame Street is taking on divorce.
