Word: enthusiasm
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...step forward in the Big Dig’s ultimate goal of replacing the elevated Central Artery highway with an underground road—beautifying Boston as it makes it safer—is one that we greet with enthusiasm. But the Big Dig is by no means over, and the successful closure of this phase in its plan should not obscure all that remains to be addressed...
...says Gary Bauer, a conservative activist who ran against Bush for the G.O.P. nomination. "They've made a calculation: take action, but with the least discomfort to other portions of the coalition--some of the more moderate suburban women who don't react to this with the same enthusiasm I might...
...they say exactly what they're thinking and have crystal-clear motives. Swear words and skin rarely cost viewers or ad revenue anymore, but complex stories and strong points of view are polarizing. Love-'em-or-hate-'em shows fit HBO's business model: the gleefully misanthropic Curb Your Enthusiasm is a hit for HBO because a few million people like it intensely enough to pay for it. But a network, which needs lots of eyeballs to sell to advertisers, would prefer 25 million viewers who don't dislike a show enough to change the channel. Pay-cable series also...
...overcome a burglar or produce Christmas cards or vacuum up cracker crumbs--while Gromit watches in mute exasperation or buries his snout in a favorite book (one is Men Are from Mars, Dogs Are from Pluto). Something usually goes explosively wrong, but that doesn't dampen either Wallace's enthusiasm or Gromit's obligation to restore the status...
...students said that Megan’s enthusiasm and vision for the arts at Harvard during his two year tenure have had a profound impact on them...