Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Better still, after Davis discovers her ruse, he allows himself to be drawn into it; he hopes jealousy will warm his old girlfriend as his devotion never could. Before you know it, the fake marriage has turned into a troubled one, with the local minister providing earnest counseling and virtually the whole town worrying about those two nice kids trying to work out their problems...
...most curious cut is Goodbye, Carmen, a "tribute" to the foreign housekeepers who toil anonymously for the rich and famous: "Thank you for staying with us for a while/ With your pretty smile/ And someday you'll get home again." It is an earnest effort but comes off as a bit condescending...
...album is produced by -- can this be right? -- the Smithsonian Institution? Aren't they the earnest scholars who compile hours of field hollers and other historic folk music? Yes, but in 1971 the Smithsonian began moving gradually into mainstream pop and jazz, first by mail order and, since last fall, in retail record stores. Because it is a nonprofit entity, commercial labels grant it the rights to their classic and vintage tracks. These plus the private collections unearthed by the Smithsonian make for unequaled quality and comprehensiveness...
...preface to saying they've backfired. Bush's Republican rival, Patrick Buchanan, then trumps him by pre-emptively tarring any new antipoverty efforts with the same brush. "In the wake of Los Angeles," Buchanan declares, "everyone has a 'solution' to the 'problem.' And these solutions come from earnest and well-intentioned men and women." Officer, stop that man! He's armed with good intentions...
...THAT WAS MISSING WAS NORman Rockwell to immortalize the scene for an old Saturday Evening Post cover. The sea of white faces in the crowd at the Texas state Capitol in Austin last week was freckles-fritters-and-fried-chicken America: elderly retirees, earnest young men and women in ROSS FOR BOSS T shirts, and a sprinkling of former Vietnam POWS in black shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind...