Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woody Allen rounds up the usual show-biz subjects -- egomaniacal star (Dianne Wiest in a great, bold comic performance), earnest young playwright, desperate producer -- and an underworld hit man (Chazz Palminteri) who has what none of them has: theatrical genius. He teaches them all a thing or two about art and life in Allen's happiest, most assured comedy in many years...
...ordered choice must be preserved. It satisfies neither side, but it's a reasonable compromise that both have accepted. When two sides compromise, they should stick by the deal unless the situation changes. And it hasn't. If the masters are in earnest in renewing their push for randomization, they are simply being poor sports...
Even as NATO's pep rally began in earnest in Brussels, it was treated to a shower of ice water from Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, who set the meeting back on its heels by suddenly refusing a long-prepared deal offering Moscow a special relationship with NATO in coordinating European security. Kozyrev's rebuff might have been meant to fend off nationalists at home, but its timing suggested that lessons from the Bosnia debacle were taken into account...
...despair. After it hosts Lehigh today in a rare Saturday afternoon game at Briggs' Cage, Harvard opens its lvy schedule next Tuesday against Dartmouth, and then after four non-league games, starts the lvy season in earnest January 7 at power-house Penn...
...established. Neither party has the leaders or the programs to transcend the need to satisfy the fire breathers on the edges. The electorate, meanwhile, veers back and forth trying to reach an equilibrium. Democrats are down, then up. Republicans out, then in. The search is on in earnest for a party and a program and a leader that are not captive to Washington and its aura of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement. It was certainly premature to declare a permanent Republican hegemony. One senior White House official had it right: "What the people have said is, 'We're going...