Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home state...
...vintage tunes and formats--the loose, buoyant ensembles (Moten Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics...
Nintendo's competitors, of course, are hardly disappearing. The Sony Playstation has acquired a fervent following, and in Los Angeles this week Sega will be trumpeting the arrival of a 32-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog, a soaring game called Nights, and a Net Link telephone hookup that will allow Sega Saturn owners to use their systems as on ramps to the Information Highway...
...energy at the center of Paul Rudnick's new play about the twin evils of censorship and ambition (we're talking art and politics, of course) is its fervent desire to shock. Rudnick, who wrote the Obie-Award-winning "Jeffrey," has mastered the minefield of homosexuality and a Republican Congress--turning up a gem of a play amidst such well-traveled territory. Though this jouncy, stunningly designed production never quite stoops low enough to outrage, the pace is uptempo and the lines clever enough to jolt even the savviest Village person into a laugh of bemused recognition...
...professor with the librarian, Piedade, in order to win Helene's affections for himself. Piedade, meanwhile, is a beautiful, porcelain-like young woman, of the purest mind and flesh; she often quotes passages of Faust in the original German and she loves Baltar with a fervent--and slightly incestuous--daughterly respect. Helene pretends to desire Baltar, but she'd rather get a little attention from her husband, who values his research more than anything, except, perhaps, the chance to deflower his librarian. The remaining two inhabitants of the convent, a pair of housekeepers, sneak around the buildings, spying...