Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coinage: "Darmanesque" denotes the arcane stratagems he devised to promote Reagan policies. In the process of advancing Reaganomics, he sometimes swallowed his own skepticism about its wisdom. Now Darman must extricate Bush from the tar pit that is Ronald Reagan's fiscal legacy. The incongruity does not diminish his enthusiasm...
...junior sprinter's enthusiasm for track and her ability to motivate others with her team spirit has made her a leader and a role model on the team...
...public seems ready to let bygones be bygones. Subscriptions are back up from a low of 11,700 to nearly 18,000, and ticket sales provide almost 75% of the $8.1 million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious...
Union staff members reacted with enthusiasm when told of the week and offered many suggestions for activities, D'Andria said. In fact, one of the Union employees made all the blue- or pink-and-white bonnets being worn by the female staff this week, Hennessey said...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...