Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese artists who went to Paris between 1890 and 1930, the highest years of French influence on world culture. It does not contain a single masterpiece; almost everything in it is derivative, and not always very intelligently so. One would not normally cross the street to see earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America is likely to have heard of is Fujita Tsuguji, he of the sinuous, minutely penciled studio nudes whose prices seemed so excessive when the Japanese started buying them back at auction 15 years...
...message in it, like a rock in a snowball. What do the invariably polite Japanese really think of the dozens of American artists in the past few decades who have tried to adopt the forms, or at least the rhetoric, of Zen brush painting? What do Americans' earnest spoutings about calligraphy, meaning any aesthetic scribble, convey to real calligraphers? Provincialism is a two-way street...
...should begin now." He added, "I'm a sinner, but my religion tells me that all of us are sinners." His rivals never mentioned Hart's character or morals. Two hours was all it took for Hart, who seemed wan and out of practice, to take on the earnest aspect of just another Democrat debating issues...
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the Yippies' brilliant impresarios, compiled a ridiculous mock agenda that the authorities took in earnest: the Yippies threatened to put LSD into the city's water supplies, to drug the delegates' food, to get "hyperpotent" male Yippies to seduce the delegates' wives, to paint cars to look like taxis and kidnap delegates to Wisconsin. The underground Express Times warned, "If you're going to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair" -- a sardonic echo of the sweet flower-child tune of the summer before ("If you're going to San Francisco...
...IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS For one summer week, TV viewers were transfixed by Ollie North, an earnest, gap-toothed Marine who zealously believed in what he did. And for nightly summaries, PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour was tops...