Word: earnest
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Someday, when Charmed is forgotten, the former star of Beverly Hills, 90210 will still be a touchstone of early '90s nostalgia, the era's iconic teenage girl in her role as pouty, headstrong Brenda Walsh. The naturalness of Doherty's bratty but earnest characterization helped make the show a hit by the end of its first season (1990-91). There was sudden fame and magazine covers, but it is a time that Doherty remembers less than fondly. Now 27, she wants the world to know that she is not the same person she was when she was regularly written...
Jazz musicians are also beginning to grapple with the wealth of potential standards written after 1960, an off-and-on trend renewed in earnest a few years ago when vocalist Cassandra Wilson turned the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville into a torchy, caramelized ballad nearly worthy of Billie Holiday. Herbie Hancock followed with The New Standard, an entire album of rock-era tunes in which he improvised on changes derived from the Beatles, Sade and Kurt Cobain, among others. Joshua Redman's forthcoming Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) (Warner Bros.) covers similar ground, with songs by Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder...
...like a high-school diary. Currently seen glamming it up in the newest issue of Rolling Stone, Rzeznik himself sheds here as well some of the down-home Buffalo boy that got him and his band where they are today. On certain tracks, such as "January Friend," his normally earnest, raspy voice mutates to a synthetic-sounding and nasal scratchiness, reminiscent of a phlegmy Ed Roland. The Goo Dolls, however, are no Collective Soul; Rzeznik here commits the double wrong of choosing the wrong person to imitate and failing to do it accurately...
...Askwith Educational Forum and titled "The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Poetry," was comprised largely of material from his recent book on verse, Making Your Own Days, and showed him from the start to be a delightful figure, his manner relaxed, forthright, a little absent-minded; his delivery earnest but clever; his lanky form animated in a way that made him seem very much younger than his seventy odd years...
Chile's new wine boom has been sparked by an upsurge in boutique vineyards like Santa Laura. Unlike many traditional Chilean winemakers, the Hartwig family, which runs the winery, disdains exaggerated harvests that compromise grape quality and makes earnest use of stainless-steel vat technology. The Hartwigs also take more care than is usual in Chile to master their terroir--making soil, climate and grape work in richer harmony. Similar attention is being paid in other newer wineries like MontGras, Carmen and Veramonte, which is bottling Chile's hot new grape, a Merlot cousin called Camenere...