Picture her in Season 1: a lady-in-training earnestly lapping up verses to epic songs about honorable lords and ladies, knights and damsels.
"Can I ask you to run a marathon for us in the last four days?" a young staff member in jeans earnestly beseeched a white-haired volunteer as he stepped into the Forest Park office.
Written by Ann Peacock and based on Valerie Tripp's stories for the doll of the same name, "Kit Kittredge" takes place during the Great Depression in Cincinnati (earnestly played by Toronto), where the jobless are in the streets and the middle classes are in denial.
The opposite, surely, with quill-chewing, meticulous labor audible in every earnestly created bar.
At 4 a.m., he was sitting with eight nurses at a cancer center in Tampa, earnestly talking health care.
And just for good measure, someone would take out 20 full-page ads in an earnestly well-meaning daily newspaper.
But now - well, I don't think we'll have what she's having, thank you so much: a torrid time in an earnestly imagined Manhattan netherworld of crime, violence and sexual obsession.
For the next decade, until the Bundestag began convening there officially, the Reichstag was reconstructed in an earnestly debated, self-consciously symbolic manner that said as much about reunified Germany as its ruin had said about the totalitarian years.
The 13 songs on Weezer's fourth album, "Maladroit" (Geffen), clock in at under 34 minutes (truncated video clips fill out the CD), and they're full of nonsense-syllable hooks and classic power-pop complaints: "I can't say that you love me, so I cry and I'm hurting," Rivers Cuomo sings in his earnestly wounded voice.
