Word: earnest
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...maintenance thereof, it is useful to be reminded that America's private life has always been a lot more entertaining than its public life. The instrument of our deliverance from this year's cant and hypocrisy is a deadpan, dead-on movie called Flirting with Disaster. In it an earnest young fellow named Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller), who has been raised by adoptive parents, sets out to find his birth parents. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to do, since the former are, respectively, a screeching bundle of nerves (Mary Tyler Moore--yes, our Mary, joyfully subverting her institutional self...
Unfair? The real Littlefield is more earnest preppy than pantsless nebbish, a boyish executive with a neatly trimmed beard. One thing his 21 years in the TV business have taught him is that it doesn't pay to be a sourpuss. He claims he used to "crack up" at Letterman's on-air gibes, even when Letterman went so far as to smash a Tiffany candy dish Littlefield had given him as a gift. As for the Late Shift portrayal, Littlefield laughs it off, though he points out that "I don't wear boxer shorts. I wear briefs." He shrugs...
With that, my crusade began in earnest. I e-mailed that address to every Idahoan I had in my address book. I e-mailed the address to my mother, who e-mailed it to everyone she knew. I begged my father to e-mail and call...
...women's team, the defending Ivy League champions, will travel to California over Spring Break for one last tuneup before the Ivy League season begins in earnest in April. The men will also be in action in California over the break...
Imbuing the camera's eye with spiritual significance, director Theo Angelopoulos brings us the visually beautiful, yet emotionally challenging "Ulysses' Gaze." Through the story of a director's earnest search for a film reel from the earliest history of cinema, Angelopoulos chronicles a greater quest for lost innocence and an untainted view...