Word: earnest
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...RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude: the bedroom eyes, the insult of a pearly smile, the preter-natural cocksureness. "I don't break the law," he sneers at a cop. "I make my own." Director Harvey Berman's earnest melodrama, about a teen rebel due for his comeuppance, is fun for its glimpse of Baby Jack's crystalline ego. When he's dumped by a married woman, he tells her, "Honey, you're a bad loser...
...Crucible-like period drama with The Devil Inside Her.) Peter Locke's It Happened in Hollywood was a Laugh-In-inspired skitcom; one funny turn featured a man-woman trapeze act called the Flying Fucks. These weren't always very good movies, but they were real ones, with earnest, sometimes accomplished actors, scripts that tried to be clever and increasingly professional production values. Just add screwing...
That late-summer anxiety was short-lived, though. Hitting the weight room in earnest with the upperclassmen and skating in captain’s practice prior to the season’s start, Pelle worked himself into the shape he’d need to crash the net as he had throughout his career with the Apple Core...
...procedures among nations, and creates an E.U. president and foreign minister - is rejected in a founding E.U. member like France, the document would be dead, or require an arduous renegotiation process. "We've always thought the result will be close, but this will force the campaign to begin in earnest," says an adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the governing Union for a Popular Movement, which favors the constitution. "The no side has gained by being negative; so will we. From now on, we'll ask, 'What happens if we reject this?' People don't like not knowing what...
...must remember that when a band so ostentatiously channels John and Paul’s heart and soul, or Jagger’s swagger, they are implicitly placing themselves among these influences, and as a result most bands don’t dare to reach back in such earnest...