Word: annoy
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...waiting for, kids? Only at Spike and Mike's can you see zany misadventures of silly Mr. Motormouth or the heartwarming exploits of Wheelchair Rebecca! So come join the fun and learn about the wonders of our bodies through some Claymation, or how to be an "Angry Kid" and annoy your parents on long car rides. Be sure not to miss out on the singing penis-the mouth is animated, but everything else...
Bush is also seen as more emotionally open, ingenuously self-deprecating, so his larger distortions--about skewing his tax cuts, raising less money than Gore for his campaign, giving more seniors drug coverage--do not annoy people as much. Embellishment takes a certain amount of calculation, and most of Bush's RAM is used up trying to remember who's covered and who isn't under his own Medicare prescription plan. Bush, who boasts of his preference for one-page memos over books, obviously wanted the bell to ring badly on Tuesday night. He affably admitted he needs help, naming...
...confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client...
...room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance. Van Helden's real rush, it seems, comes when he lures dancers back onto the floor...
Slated to start playing at 4, the band didn't actually emerge until about 4:45--creating a window of dead time that seemed to annoy some audience members...