Word: earnestly
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...toned brick buildings glow creamily in the afternoon sun. The cheery campus hardly recalls the school's old self-description as the "World's Most Unusual University." Not, at least, until one wanders by the bookstore and sees material on Catholicism under the heading "Cults." Or converses with an earnest young music major near an administrative building. "The Pope isn't necessarily the Antichrist," he explains, parsing a famous (and never retracted) statement by his school's founder. "He is an Antichrist...
...family rivalries but by this familial guilt. His best lines have gone to Juliet, whose troubles are most sinister. Or at least Brittani Sonnenberg '03 makes them seem like the best lines. Coming from her role as Cecily in last semester's runaway success The Importance of Being Earnest, Sonnenberg converts the coy navet of her Wildian role to the coy hopelessness of a wrecked teenage girl. She smiles, flares or stares into space with a studied cynicism...
...camera's love of young faces and promotes Grady's best student (Katie Holmes) and his weirdest (Tobey Maguire) to lead roles. But the pulse of Curtis Hanson's direction is lethargic; the comic bits are so slack and deadpan you could mistake the film for an earnest drama--an Afterschool Special for troubled kids and their pooped parents...
...turns 30--is a Ferrari, a closetful of Armanis, a couple of mil--and, oh yes, respectability. That's where J.T. Marlin, the brokerage firm, comes in. O.K., it isn't exactly J.P. Morgan. It is, in fact, as the title of writer-director Ben Younger's morally earnest yet very lively first feature has it, a Boiler Room...
That was easier said than done. In the macho culture of Sicily and Calabria, just across the straits, there was a tradition of hunting migrating raptors. So when this earnest young woman began badgering police, forest rangers and local authorities to do something about the illegal killing, she was not taken seriously. But she organized camps of young people who gathered each spring to observe the migrations and inform police when they saw poachers at work...