The works, performed Friday at the Joyce SoHo, dealt with the subject matter in all too earnest terms.
And if you walk the streets (get a map from Stanfords in Covent Garden before you go) you see real – as opposed to tourist – America in all its earnest eccentricity.
The sound mix is crisp, the black-and-white photography is lovely, and the songs, above all, can be heard in all their earnest, enigmatic glory, performed by an artist whose gifts are at once mysterious and self-evident.
The way to write it is to disassemble the story, look at its parts in all their earnest falsity, and in that looking capture the real reality the pretend reality has failed.
You might not realize it until you're stuck in traffic on the 101, halfway through a whirlwind odyssey that spans a pop-up dance party in Westlake and a benefit in Bel-Air, all in an earnest attempt to understand Los Angeles's emerging fashion scene, that there's something very New York about the whole effort.
Though online video-rental and distribution has only recently begun in earnest, all those HDTV sets sold over the past few years will shortly make high-definition downloads the norm.
One candidate proposed, half in jest, half in earnest, that we all agree ahead of time to split the money, whoever won.
It is all in deadly earnest.
Ms. Blue seems to be very much in earnest about all this, fatally so.
"My goodness, after 50-plus years of studying obesity in earnest and all the public wringing of hands, why don't we know this answer?" Dr. Allison asked.
