Word: earnestness
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That they failed in the brief time allowed was perhaps inevitable. That they tried, and agreed to keep on trying, was good news after six years of stonewalling and invective at long range. Equally important, the frank but earnest exchange between the two leaders may have served to shore up support back home, without which neither leader can deliver on any good intentions...
When 90 million readers turned from turkey to the comics in some 2,000 U.S. newspapers last week, they got more than the usual fantasy and folderol. Their favorite characters, the creations of 175 syndicated cartoonists, delivered the same unfunny but earnest message: on this bountiful Thanksgiving in America, much of the world still goes hungry...
...cannot be again: an exciting new face. As one political expert notes, the fact that Hart is well known is his biggest advantage, but also his biggest disadvantage. In any case, the list of hopefuls doubtless will undergo both additions and subtractions even before the 1988 campaign starts in earnest. Which most probably will be Nov. 5, the day after this year's midterm elections. --By George J. Church. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Denver and Hays Gorey/Washington
What HBO's audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials...
...manifesto. Yet this posthumous memoir, completed nine days before its author's death, is distinguished more by self-criticism and generosity toward actors than by its hostility to the theater establishment of producers, critics and other spokesmen for popular tastes. Like Schneider's productions, his autobiography displays an earnest search for truth at whatever cost to the seeker...