Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson scrimmage against Yale this weekend before beginning its team season in earnest at the Ivy-League Round Robin tournament November...
...fact, right now is a fine moment for Native American culture, both high and pop. The museum's opening is a prelude to the much larger, $60 million | Smithsonian Indian edifice to be opened in Washington in 2001. And it coincides with the vast, vastly earnest, 6-hr. recasting of Indian history on Ted Turner's TBS (the sound track, featuring Mohawk singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson, forms the basis of a critically acclaimed CD). In Buena Vista, California, Disney artists are shaping the studio's next big-ticket animated film: Pocohantas...
Apparently Ripper precipitated nuclear destruction when he became aware of the Communists' plan to destroy the free world through a program of strict water fluoridation. Hayden is brilliantly earnest, champing on a cigar, hand on Mandrake's knee, arm cozily around his shoulders, explaining how he thwarts the commies by drinking "only pure grain alcohol and rainwater," to maintain his purity of essence. "Women," he confides to the bewildered captain, "sense my power and seek my live essence. I don't avoid women, but I do deny them my essence...
...politician who retreats to a cottage in the Minnesota woods to recover after a humiliating election defeat. There, with Kathy, his longtime wife and college sweetheart, he looks into the mist over the lake and plays hide-and-seek with his unwanted memories. For Wade is not only an earnest man of principles, he is also a spooked vet who wakes up yelling in his sleep recalling the horrors he was part of -- and party to -- in Vietnam. Kathy is guilty of her own betrayals, and the wary husband and wife tiptoe around each other until eventually Wade is left...
...played on his self-described attributes--an earnest demeanor and a knack for organization--to embark on an orchestrated face-to-face campaign...