Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes up in peppiness. Spouting acronyms while standing at a blackboard, he approaches the energy level of Robin Williams. He is British (an Oxford physics major), but to watch only his hands as he talks, you'd guess Italian. Five, six years ago, during his "evangelizing" phase, this relentless enthusiasm was what pushed the Web beyond critical mass...
...cast was proficient but encountered the same dilemma as the production as a whole. Trying to keep the audience chuckling throughout, cast members delivered their lines with surplus energy and enthusiasm. As a result, the humor was a bit forced at times, and the sense of suffering which emerges in Parker's stories was lost. Although the actors made their characters pleasant and witty company for the evening, they all ended up seeming two-dimensional. Some of the cast members had their best and most believable moments when their characters were drunk, a condition that invites broader and more slapstick...
...With enthusiasm in her British-accented voice and a youthful twinkle in her eyes, Selby speaks passionately about the institute's newly commissioned ship (all 282 feet) and the research voyages it would take around the world--to be conducted on 4,000 square feet of lab space...
...magazine, which is read every school week by 1.2 million students, just completed its second year of publication and has received the industry's equivalent of straight A's: a 50% jump in circulation and five Educational Press awards. "But our greatest satisfaction," says Wallis, "comes from seeing the enthusiasm of our young readers. We get a thousand letters and E-mails a week." Schools may call 1-800-777-8600 to learn more about...
...Prime Minister John Bruton talking up peace prospects in Northern Ireland. Bruton called for an IRA cease-fire and urged the organization to take advantage of Labour's control of parliament to jump-start talks. "Here, the basic feeling is that there is a new sort of urgency and enthusiasm for trying to restart the peace process," reports TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "After being elected last week, Blair seems willing to try new initiatives and arrangements which may bridge the impasse and get the parties talking. The huge majority Labour has will also help him because...