Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is most appealing about Richman's music, aside from general excellence, is its unironic appreciation of life, rare in today's hipper-than-thou culture. Richman is never less than totally honest and earnest and although he is aware of this and its effects, he is never putting on an act; he's just being Jonathan. This was very apparent when he played to a packed downstairs at the Middle East on Nov. 2. With just his guitar and drummer Tommy Larkins, Richman played one of the most entertaining and energetic live shows I've seen in a very...
...Jewry was spared the worst of genocide. Mussolini's Fascist government only belatedly and halfheartedly embraced the nightmare racial theories of its German ally. Not until after the Italians made a separate peace, late in the war, and the Germans occupied much of their country did deportations begin in earnest. This meant that many Italian Jews stayed only a relatively short time in the camps, which enhanced their chances of survival...
...comparative religion and visionary literature are hiding in the American heartland. Teenagers make up a near majority of the audience for DisInformation www.disinfo.com) a site that purveys antimainstream media politics and conspiracy theory to hundreds of thousands with a humor and skepticism that make Paul Krassner's Realist seem earnest and tame...
...goofily dark vision of Hanson's Weird was interesting, and Martin Scorsese's story line for Michael Jackson's Bad was pretty good, but Brian De Palma's Dancing in the Dark was kind of silly, and Abel Ferrara's upcoming effort for the Phoids looks like an overly earnest drug documentary. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) has beaten them all with this black-and-white, slow-motion interpretation of Apple's dreamy Beatles cover from the Pleasantville sound track. While a makeup-free Apple dreamily croons in a '50s diner, mod-looking boys in steel-toe boots trash...
...apart, andBabe is on the verge of going to jail--orworse--for shooting her husband. Lenny bears thefull brunt of their grandfather's terminalillness. Lenny is not a part one can exactly playwith grace, but Jen Ceballos '01 plays herperfectly to every inch of fatigue andbedraggled-ness. The awkward, earnest way Lennytries to light her own birthday candles alone inher kitchen opens the play on a perfect note, andshowcases Ceballos' expertise with Lenny'sflighty, loud and endearing character. Lenny'salternately bossy and utterly helpless momentspush the characters to the hysterical moments thatgive this play its funny moments. Ceballos' actingeventually convinces...