Word: earnest
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gallery environment, Watts's game-based compositions and verbal pieces are centerpieces. Pieces such as "Frog Game" and samples from the Yam Festival newsletter, commemorating a year-long arts festival in 1963-4 which began and ended in May (Yam backwards), offer an intriguing glimpse at the earnest wit and interactive character of Watts's aesthetic. The weakest pieces by both Kaprow and Watts are the found objects, such as a stamp machine and a bucket with balls of yarn, which are derivative of Duchamp's ready-mades. They lack the spontaneity and originality of Kaprow's and Watts...
Hugh Grant, of course, is a mega-Hollywood star now even though he started with smaller, usually independent, usually British films. In Small Time Crooks, he finally sheds his trademarked earnest likeability for a role that's more sinister. I talked to Grant in New York about his new role and his career trajectory...
...disagreement extends over the entire mathematics curriculum, kindergarten through high school. It runs right through the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the professional organization of mathematics teachers. The new NCTM curriculum guidelines, presented with great fanfare on April 12, represent an earnest effort at finding common ground, but barely manage to paper-over the differences...
...from the Monmouth County Boy Scout Council might never have known, since Dale didn't have much contact with them from college. But on July 8, 1990, the Newark daily newspaper ran an earnest article about the plight of "homosexual teenagers," of whom Dale was still one. He had spoken at a conference on why gay teens commit suicide at high rates, and his picture appeared, showing him gesticulating next to a lesbian fellow student...
...Internet economy, anyone over 27. Not only did dotcom whippersnappers get spanked by the NASDAQ, but TV's youthquake--when networks unleashed a hot-bodied army of Dawson's Creek clones to capture young audiences--triggered an avalanche of zit fatigue. The teen cop (Ryan Caulfield), the earnest young politicos (D.C.), the sexy prepsters (the never-aired Manchester Prep)--all were dead on arrival, while older-skewing dramas thrived...