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Chen told no one he was going except his father. The 50-year-old farmer from Meiyou village was not really surprised. Canting, the second oldest of his five children, was the most ambitious. Slightly built but with a surprisingly deep voice and an earnest air of self-assurance, No. 2 Son always wanted more than the village offered. Instead of carousing in the karaoke bars, he tried to set up his own business. He went south to Xiamen to trade seafood, but ended up losing money in the fickle, seasonal business. Undaunted, he was now attempting something far more...
...from the Monmouth County Boy Scout Council might never have known, since Dale didn't have much contact with them from college. But on July 8, 1990, the Newark daily newspaper ran an earnest article about the plight of "homosexual teenagers," of whom Dale was still one. He had spoken at a conference on why gay teens commit suicide at high rates, and his picture appeared, showing him gesticulating next to a lesbian fellow student...
When Ravelstein becomes ill and starts declining toward death, Chick realizes that the biographical task he had taken on as sport, never believing he would outlive his subject, has turned earnest indeed. Ravelstein is what he finally, after the passage of some duly noted years and difficulties, produces. This is a book, in some sense, about the writing of a book...
...Friend." These two bonus tracks "fit in with the theme of the album, which is love," Cliff explains in a press release. Cliff's sincere message of omnipresent love, whether it be the love of family, nature or life, reaches out to the listener via his earnest vocals and powerful voice. As he sings of unity and peace inspired by events occurring back home in Jamaica, Cliff lives up to his album's title...
Starling's potpourri of accomplished pop styles is evident from the first track, "Don't Deflate," which is reminiscent of Fountains of Wayne. "Earnest," the next track, has catchy Pavement-esque falsetto interjections accompanied by acoustic rhythms and clapping sounds that would make any late-'80s rock band proud, and still manages to bust out the electric guitars for the chorus. Going from Pavement to Extreme to Soundgarden in one song turns out, surprisingly, to be a nice stylistic mesh. The majority of the other songs are more electronically infused, making the band sound a lot like Tripping Daisy. Although...