Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clampett at this stage of his career, you could enjoy the performance for its impudence. Even more brilliant are his quieter, serious moments, when this hackneyed material takes on larger dimensions. Perhaps the best scene in The Betsy occurs after Olivier has presented his son (Paul Rudd in an earnest performance) with wedding presents--some stocks in the company worth $27 million and a new car to be named after him: the Loren II. Alone at the evening's end, Olivier stumbles out to the new car and realizes that this present meant relatively little to Loren Jr. It wasn...
After a breather on Monday due to GW's B-day, lectures will begin in earnest again on Tuesday with a colloquium given by Susan Carey, a Radcliffe Institute Fellow and assistant professor of Psychology at MIT, on "The Child as a Scientist," in the Agassiz House colloquium room at 3:30 p.m. If you are interested in a free meal, wine and cheese will be served following the talk...
...Ullman, who contends that a bigger tax cut would deepen the budget deficit, kick up inflation and irrecoverably lead to recession. He opposes even the $25 billion cut and advocates starting at a lower figure, say $15 billion. But Ullman is not likely to prevail over O'Neill. Earnest, hard-working Ullman lacks the clout wielded by his predecessor, Wilbur Mills, in part because of recent reforms of House rules, which weakened all committee chairmen while strengthening the Speaker...
...Crimson cagers kicked off the Ivy League campaign in earnest last night at the IAB with a pell mell victory over Brown by the deceptively close score...
...Children of Theater Street are, in fact, the students of Leningrad's Vaganova Institute, perhaps the most distinguished school of the dance in the world (its graduates include Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov). This earnest documentary, which never quite gets up on point, offers a comprehensive view of the life and hard work of present-day students at the institute. Along the way there are trots through the school's history and considerable crosscutting to onstage performances by the great Kirov company, for which the school supplies dancers, and to the more experimental Maly company, also...