Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottle of oxygen with enough for three or four people and saying work it out among yourselves," says Meier. The Darwinian culling of the banking sector has limited appeal to anyone except Moscow's oligarchs, who hope to salvage some of their wealth. Foreign bankers have little enthusiasm for the plan -- besides doubts over its efficacy, it's a nonstarter without another infusion of Western billions...
...horrible," says Todd Gitlin, a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University. "I'm filled with disgust with what has become of this country, and I hold the media crucially responsible. What has happened is that in the glee, sometimes even the guilty glee, of enthusiasm for this story, the press has sent a very clear signal to the public that it lives in a different world than the world of a self-governing democracy...
...with whom he has ever slept. Sissel, by contrast, is considerably sharp-witted--acutely aware of emotional pain and other substantial problems resulting from the experience of her parents separation. Yet toward the end of the film, it is Joey who begins to understand the folly of his misguided enthusiasm and lack of direction while at the same time Sissel seems to regress even further away from the mature relationship she once comprehended on a much higher level than her lover. Simply put, the character development is a study in contrast that provides a most satisfying experience for the viewer...
...four summers now, I have not been able to leave Harvard Square, or at least not venture more than a few miles away from it. With every painfully un-airconditioned June, I have burst into my temporary new life with enthusiasm, tons of clean underwear and the profound realization that I may have made many stupid mistakes the summer before, but that was a year ago and I know everything now. And with the dawning of every September, I inevitably slink back into the dining hall with a fresh new haircut and a matching set of regrets...
...Spark" and "Raspberry Swirl" (two of choirgirl hotel's faster songs) and a much too long improvisation on "Waitress." While Amos unfortunately didn't end the concert with her usual, disarmingly emotional version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," she did come back for two encores, though her enthusiasm seemed to be dissipating by the second...