Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel about it. At times, the sentiment and explanations come across as a little too facile; the action, with all the subtlety of Saturday-morning cartoons. Many of the minor characters are more effective in suggesting motivations than Huck, who is forced to state them, either through slightly too earnest philsophizing or in songs such as "How Much Does It Cost to New Orleans", a song whose glossy sentiment sounds more like something from Yentl than the tone of this production...
...their communitarian beliefs to the utter exclusion of other options. Second, socialist thought permeates the community in defiance of its irrelevance and lack of influence in the real world of the United States. Lastly, those who are conservative or moderate are few in number and unwilling to fight in earnest for middle-of-the-road debate," said the leaflet...
...chambers silently; throughout history the Jews, a persecuted minority since the days of Moses, have fought adversity and rose to prominence on their own terms. And like Blacks, Jews still face irrational hatred in America. But since last summer, when Jackson first started preaching about the Rainbow Coalition in earnest, he has excluded the Jews from that group...
Unfortunately, we know that good will towards students and earnest attention to teaching are not ubiquitous. We all know teachers who don't value students, who in some sense don't even see their students. We don't know how many there are--we hope they are few--but we know what they are like as a type. They think of it as something that they do on their own, not as something that involves others. It's a performance they give, their traveling show; they could give it anywhere, to anyone. They may respect "teaching," because it is something...
Spinal Tap? There is no such beast. 1 his movie is merely the newest send-up the most passionate putdown, of pop culture's twin inanities: inept musicians and their earnest hagiographers. As conceived and improvised by Christopher Guest (Nigel), Michael McKean (David) Rob Reiner (Marty) and Harry Shearer .Derek Smalls, the band's gnomish bass player), the imaginary band members make up in narcotic solemnity what they lack in talent. Onstage, they steal ntts from Boccherini and Chuck Berry they re-enact the creation of the world and send costumed dwarfs capering around a tiny replica...