Word: enthusiasm
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...Received with no special enthusiasm in Europe, cut by censors into incoherence in the U.S., Pandora's Box had to wait a generation to find its audience. But when recognition for the film, and even more so for Brooks, did come, it didn't stop. The Anna Karina character in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie was based on her, as was Melanie Griffith's Lulu in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. An adoring 1979 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Tynan (calling Brooks "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever committed to celluloid") cemented her celebrity, and suddenly...
...Heintzman said that he does not believe this reflects a lack of talent in the United States, attributing the foreign dominance to increasing enthusiasm in other countries about the competition...
...Mike Fucito may not have scored the game-winning goal at Harvard’s game against Binghamton, he certainly was able to win over everyone else who was at Ohiri field on Saturday. Fucito played so enthusiastically that he couldn’t help but inspire that same enthusiasm in the crowd, causing them to rise up and shout at the rest of the Crimson players to feed Fucito the ball during the second half of play. Head Coach John Kerr also noticed the hard work and skill Fucito was putting in, standing up and screaming...
Even more than his policy positions, it is Patrick’s energy and optimism that makes his election so tremendously exciting. As the second black governor ever elected in the U.S., Patrick has generated more enthusiasm and positive thinking than any other politician in Massachusetts’ recent past, mobilizing voters across the socioeconomic spectrum in support of expanded opportunity and progressive fiscal management. We eagerly anticipate watching Patrick translate this remarkable energy into action...
...Yale-Princeton game in New Haven this Saturday had a remarkably high turnout, Yale students said, possibly owing to less enthusiasm for the upcoming Game. Christian E. Hudson, a sports broadcaster for Yale’s student radio station, WYBC, said that there were over 42,000 students in attendance at the Yale-Princeton game on Saturday. In the past the Princeton game never drew more than 30,000 spectators, while 55,000 students attended the Harvard-Yale game last year, Hudson said. Hudson, a senior, attributed the unusually high turnout to decreased interest in attending The Game, as well...