Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marriage settled Rubinstein in more ways than one. Up to then, he had got by on sheer talent. But after the birth of his first child in 1933, he took up the piano in earnest; for three months, he practiced diligently at a remote mountain cottage in southeastern France. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What a pianist your father might have been,' " he explained. He emerged from his battle a master of the keyboard; at age 47, his real career was about to begin...
...such painful steps. Respondents were 56% to 39% against slowing increases in Social Security benefits, and 65% to 28% against raising Social Security taxes. If a bipartisan agreement cannot be achieved by the commission, the prospects of reaching one later, as the presidential campaign gets under way in earnest, are anything but bright...
THINGS HAPPEN, sometimes, that make the most earnest student long to cancel her higher intellectual functions. When the seasonal barrage of exams loom, and the voracious maw of the terminal room threatens, high art loses its appeal. Now is the time for Airplane...
...which matters less than one might think. Indeed, the refusal to be flashy finally seems to be an earnest of the obvious idealism that Attenborough brought to his work, and of his apparent desire to both demythologize and demystify his subject, thus restoring Gandhi to human dimension. The director's stylistic self-denial serves to keep one's attention fastened where it belongs: on a persuasive, if perhaps debatable vision of Gandhi's spirit, and on the remarkable actor who has caught its light in all its seasons...
Nearly all radio disc jockeys are cut from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...