Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRACY CHAPMAN: CROSSROADS (Elektra). The follow-up to her smash debut album in 1988 is . . . well, just like the first. Chapman's voice stays strong, her music soft, her message angry and often oppressively earnest. Straightforward and worthy but generally without excitement...
...said on the West Berlin radio station RIAS,"The leadership must make other steps to prove itis earnest in its reform efforts and to win thetrust of the people. The tension between thepeople and the party has never been so great astoday...
...outline could as well describe a nature documentary or even a children's picture -- anyway, something bland, earnest or otherwise simpleminded. This is not to imply that The Bear, which is an adaptation by French filmmakers of a 1916 novel by the American outdoorsman James Oliver Curwood, lacks educational value. Or that children will not be charmed by the misadventures of its bouncy, cuddly hero. But the highest pleasures of this wondrous movie lie not in its apparently artless narrative but in the artful ways it transcends...
Whether the motif is jazz or swing, classical or ragtime, there is one constant in the films of Woody Allen: good music sets both the mood and the pace. The meticulous attention to scoring is no coincidence. Comedian Allen is deadly earnest when it comes to music, especially the New Orleans jazz style he favors most...
...road to Indianapolis and the national championship finally begins in earnest this weekend for the Harvard men's water polo team. And the road begins in the Crimson's own backyard with a New England League invitational at Blodgett Pool...