Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps because many of the substitutes were getting their first extensive playing time of the season, there was more visible enthusiasm on the bench than there has been in many recent home games...
Fallows hardly speaks of speechwriting with great enthusiasm. "If you've written speeches," he says, "then you understand both what a different form they are from real writing and how you get used to venting all your own prejudices under your name. It feels a little frustrating to tone them down." Along with this suppression of "the luxury of being able to deliver your own opinions," the speechwriter can't devote any space to evidence or explanations, Fallows says. "You have to string together conclusions and assertions one after another and try to make little rhetorical patterns with them...
...showed up in the final films. Today's movies tend to have the smell of cost accounting." But, after seeing an hour and a half of the '76 Kong, Schickel reports: "The people who made it weren't counting pennies and were clearly having fun. Their enthusiasm shines through...
...instinct was sound. "I study the big-box-office movies in the last 30 years," says De Laurentiis in an English fractured by enthusiasm. "Nearly all are family movies. I see Kong as the greatest love story ever made, a picture for everyone." The trouble was, when Dino fell in love with Kong, almost everyone he went to for financing told him he was crazy, that the only interest in Kong was purely nostalgic and that $10 million-his first, modest budget estimate-was too much to risk on that quasi-emotion...
Nevertheless, Ford remains optimistic. "If we can combine the enthusiasm we showed at Dartmouth and the ability we showed against B.U., we should have a good game," he said. "We're looking for a win under our belts before Brown...