Word: earnestly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fault for this lies in a script that would rather ingratiate than abrade, in direction that is content to realize, in documentary fashion, the ugly surfaces of asylum life. One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum...
...Jakarta and Honolulu. That will take the President up to mid-December; and after a short desk stop in the Oval Office, he will emplane for the ski slopes of Vail, probably with a rally or two on the way. And after the holidays, presidential primary campaigns begin in earnest, and so it will be Pocatello, Binghamton and you name...
Everybody, including the most earnest believers in the normalcy theory, agrees on one thing, however. There is an absolute consensus, a collective obsession with the idea that Yale students work harder--harder than students at other colleges, harder than ever before, harder especially than their comrades at Harvard. Harder, certainly, than most of them want to; and harder than some consider healthy...
Ford's credibility with the American public suffered. For the first time, the earnest, honest man from Grand Rapids looked straight into the television cameras and obviously dissembled. He insisted that "there were no basic differences" on détente between Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. An incredulous reporter, John Osborne of the New Republic, asked a carefully worded follow-up question: "Are you saying and intending to be understood to say that neither personal nor policy differences between Dr. Kissinger and Mr. Schlesinger contributed to this change?" Responded Ford: "That is correct." But on Sunday, Ford shifted considerably...
...intermittently becomes Lady Bracknell. Tzara (Tim Curry) comes on with a pair of scissors, slices up a Shakespeare sonnet, dumps the lines into a top hat, and extrapolates them as gibberish to show that antiart reigns supreme. In the Wildean substructure of Travesties, Tzara doubles as John Worthing (Earnest in town-Jack in the country). Carr once again plays his friend Algy. Lenin (Harry Towb) has no role in Earnest. Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist in a workers' state, but later tearfully melts at the playing of Beethoven's Appassionato...