Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this some kind of joke? Not at all, according to Bolton. "These great arias, the ultimate means of expression for a tenor, have changed my perception of music, indeed my whole life, profoundly and permanently," he explains in his earnest liner notes. They've certainly changed the course of his career, at least temporarily. In recent months he has been singing Nessun dorma everywhere from The Nanny to Live with Regis & Kathie Lee. The album shot to the top of the Billboard classical chart on its release in January (it was still at No. 2 last week), an unprecedented achievement...
They made an exceptional team. She was more earnest, less devious, less patient, less fun, more uncompromisingly moral; he possessed the more trustworthy political talent, the more finely tuned sense of timing, the better feel for the citizenry, the smarter understanding of how to get things done. But they were linked by indissoluble bonds. Together they mobilized the American people to effect enduring changes in the political and social landscape of the nation...
...path to Allah began in earnest one day in 1974 when President Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor, abruptly ordered veteran leaders of the Brotherhood released from prison. Abdul Koddus, who was working for a Cairo paper, went to interview them and immediately became attracted to the group and its leader, Omar Tilmisani, who stressed tolerance and exemplary personal behavior. By 1976, Abdul Koddus had stopped drinking alcohol, married the daughter of a prominent Muslim preacher and joined the Brotherhood...
...remember how we got to this point in 'Michael Collins', Neil Jordan's earnest (though not always historically accurate) tale of the brilliant military mind with a 'talent for mayhem' (Liam Neeson) who virtually invented modern urban guerilla warfare and liberated at least the southern portion of the Emerald Isle from British rule. Don't worry about the history part--the fudges are minor, and it's great fun to watch as Neeson fights the British for Ireland and Aidan Quinn for the love of Julia Roberts...
There are other problems--the flat, earnest tone, the lack of any bad guys, the by-now familiar re-creation of Mission Control. Ultimately, though, From the Earth to the Moon suffers from a fundamental problem that its creators could do nothing about: the moon missions were a disappointment. They were thrilling while they took place, but that effect dissipated quickly in the 1970s, as NASA lost its way. Mankind's giant leap never seemed to take us beyond rocks and golf shots. Hanks may want to restore NASA's glory, but on the evidence so far, he hasn...