Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That poor mutt on the RCA label. For half a century he has been sitting by the victrola, one ear cocked to the horn, checking out the sounds with the same expression on his earnest face, as if he expected the machine to throw him a bone. He has weathered considerable changes: shellac to plastic; hand cranks to separate components; 78 to 45 to 33; mono to stereo and, most recently, a skirmish with quad. There is a revolutionary change coming up, however, that bids fair to wag his tail and pin his floppy ears back...
...however, his owner insists that he must pursue his pugilistic career in earnest. This leads to much yelling between them and much misunderstanding of the rules and traditions of boxing once she takes a hand in his training. The feuding is supposed to be funny, but the film is so repetitive that it is usually boring, when it isn't uncomfortable...
...smiled the waiting policeman, "welcome to Shoreham." And then he arrested her, still smiles all around. The scene was repeated, with variations, hundreds of times that afternoon. Some of the protesters were grim, earnest in their belief that stopping Shoreham was a realistic possibility: "We can't let it open," said one, "I live near here." A protester explained to the officer who arrested her, "You don't understand that we're doing this for you, it's your kids that we're trying to protest." others said the protest was very nice and all that, but doubted it would...
...Hill last week as Jimmy Carter wound up his summit in Vienna with Leonid Brezhnev and brought home the Soviet President's signature on a treaty to restrict both nations' long-range nuclear weapons. It was the signal for the great SALT II debate to begin in earnest. At stake is not just a treaty, but ten years of nuclear arms negotiations and the very nature of the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Friend and foe of the treaty in the Senate feel they have embarked, in the words of Republican Treaty Opponent Jesse Helms...
...domestic foibles and, finally, out of his wife's simultaneous bouts with childbirth and coma. These developments are so poorly conceived that Adrian's brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute fight, you got to train 45,000 minutes," barks Trainer Burgess Meredith. He isn't kidding...