Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explaining why he lost a nine- hole Jaycee golf tournament ("A 14-year-old kid who shot a 49 he ((sic)) beat me on the 17th"). A photo of an awestruck Dan as a college student shaking hands with Ronald Reagan (not unlike the now famous picture of earnest young Bill Clinton shaking hands with J.F.K...
...movie parodies explode-o-matic thrillers and yet, unlike the Hot Shots! Part Deux school of pure movie lampoons, tries also to be an earnest explode- o-matic thriller. It is a very fine line. "Every moment of every day," says screenwriter Shane Black, of working on the script with his partner David Arnott, "we looked at each other and said, 'This isn't Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance...
...elder Wilson, a soft-spoken but earnest man, says that he gives his son general encouragement, but always lets him make his own decisions, never pushing him in one direction or another...
When an abortive anti-war rally during the Gulf War attracted more camera-noting first-years than earnest anti-militarists, student politics past and present lamented: Campus politics at Harvard is not what it used...
...Exclusionatory?" Hsu uses the word again and again. This guy isn't slick--ne's just earnest. Is he an Edge Man? "Most definitely," he says. "But I'm also a Harvard Man. I'm also a New Jersey Man. I'm also a Community Service...