Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...
...have not spent years in Pop Warner, AYSO or even played Little League since I was 14. I try to make up in energy and enthusiasm what I lack in skills, and to "play smart," because this is Harvard, right? IMs provide the perfect does of sports for a weekend warrior like me. We count the good players on the other teams by who has cleats and shin guards, and we assign our own cleated players accordingly. Then I gingerly take my place along the line of scrimmage or behind the half mark and get ready to play...
After battling through reconstructive knee surgery his freshman year, Bibro's leadership and enthusiasm were not lost upon his teammates...
Rounding out the awards, senior defensive back Joe Messina was honored with the Lamar award for dedication while senior center Rob Jungerhans took away the LaCroix Trophy for enthusiasm, sportsmanship and loyalty and captain Sean Riley was recognized as the outstanding interior lineman with the Wolf Award...
This glow is only half hidden under her shapeless clothes, half disguised by her boisterous enthusiasm for baseball, half explained by her relationship with an ego-flattening mom (Lauren Bacall, dripping comic venom in award-winning doses). In short, the fine feathers of a star we all know to be a strong, smart and sexy woman keep peeking through her ugly-duckling getup. This spoils whatever suspense this story might hold, and most of its humorous potential too. Unacknowledged vanity is ever the enemy of comedy. And, come to think of it, of romance as well...