Word: earnest
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American fiction is in a satirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...need to set ticket prices at to just about break even?” Epstein emphasizes that this feature is “more of a game,” and that a more serious poll will be established once planning for Yardfest ’07 begins in earnest...
...respected. Most advised me that signing then would be a great opportunity and something I should really consider. And when I called Trey I expected to hear much of the same. Having already experienced two seasons in the Arizona Diamondbacks farm system, Trey was able to give me an earnest and startling perspective. He warned that playing baseball in the minor leagues was really more about developing the individual than about the team-first, “win-at-all-costs” mentality that prevails at Harvard. This is not to say that my current teammates...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST...
...gets its title. The ridiculousness of the song should give a sense of the SNL-like quality of the movie, which revels in its hilarious and biting satire of American life. The movie parodies everything from terrorists to America’s fixation with reality television, from middle-American earnestness to the current Bush administration. But what makes this movie really entertaining is the secret admiration it has for all of the values it pokes fun at; especially its love for the greedy American stereotype it eviscerates, epitomized by Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest-hybrid host...