Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flair and commercial flavor, Bowe's extracurricular life has also reflected the champion's earnest side. In February Bowe took a two-week goodwill trip around the world, making stops in South Africa, where he met with Nelson Mandela and pledged his support to the African National Congress; Somalia, where he delivered medical supplies to volunteer relief workers and visited American troops; and the Vatican, where he had a private audience with the Pope...
...tempting to give Melvins the benefit of the doubt, to assume that their new album is a parody of grunge as a marketing tool, a parody of Donna Karan and mail-order flannels. But there is something so damned earnest about Buzzo's lame guitar solos on "Set Me Straight," and something so ridiculously self-important about the clunky tempo changes of "Lizzy" that it's hard to give Houdini the benefit of the doubt, let alone the benefit of a second listen. And while Houdini does have one redeeming virtue--namely, "Honey Bucket," a song built around a tight...
...Senator Earnest Hollings railed against an episode of CBS' "Love and War" which featured a violent fight scene; he didn't realize that the show was intended as a job at Congressional concern with TV violence. The Senators seem hopelessly befuddled by the idiom of the medium that they yearn to regulate...
...Nightmare" will leave children in awe and the childish among us fairly impressed. It lacks the fully adult sensibilities of a good Simpsons episode but is light-years away from the earnest treacle of "The Night Before Christmas." You know, the one with the big-eyed mice...
...intrusive messages of turmoil from abroad only ensures repeated buffetings. In one of his waggish moments, Henry Kissinger once commented, "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Clinton, along with society in America and the West at large, seems to take this attitude in earnest. Last May, when Bosnian Serbs refused to follow his peace script, Clinton lamented with almost pathetic candor, "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America...