Word: earnest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that the person who has the strongest chance of winning the top office in next May's presidential election didn't take part in any of the earnest, furrowed-brow debates. Sure, Ségolène Royal was there at the beginning of the proceedings (she's the President of Poitou-Charentes, La Rochelle's region) and she was there at the end, smiling at the jokes in the closing speech of François Hollande...
...news--on the satirical website bigfib.com--makes fun of the looming choice of a successor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who steps down at year's end. If only the selection were that easy. In reality, the horsetrading and power politics involved in the search--which begins in earnest when diplomats gather this month in New York City for the 61st General Assembly--aren't much...
...Kokkinos is too passionate a filmmaker to deliver some earnest tract. And in bringing a dislocated dancer back to life, The Book of Revelation is as much about the transforming power of art. It's safe to say that with the film's Australian release this week, along with a screening in the Toronto Film Festival's outr? Visions section, few will be left unmoved by Revelation's sexual sparks and slow-burning philosophical musings-not least the filmmakers. "Everyone who became involved in the film was utterly changed by it," Kokkinos says...
...this particular case, De Kort's lack of tech savvy works for him - a flashy presentation of his bare-bones case would make his video look like a PR tool rather than an earnest documentary. And his mere presence makes the video more immediate than a faceless blog entry would be - it's an original production, not a series of cut and pasted snippets from elsewhere...