Word: artlessly
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Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...
...detail in the Bloom-Gerty McDowell episode in Ulysses. The few letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...
Mancha's surprise success confounds even its most fanatical fans. At least some of that success, in an era of Dollys and Mames, comes from the deliberate absence of panache and patina. But most of the musical's appeal is purely emotional. The artless show matches the naive Quixote, a man who is only truly alive when he dreams; it extols virtues such as honesty and courage with a stern innocence that makes people believe in them. There are only 19 actors in the musical and no chorus line, but there is a persistent illusion of greatness...
...Japanese are probably not entirely at fault for the inadequate coverage, because of American and South Vietnamese security measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing is either crudely ironic or very artless: after a long sequence of the torturing of a Vietcong prisoner, we cut to a group of white-clad schoolgirls singing songs...
...Hatter, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and the Ugly Duchess are still swimming undiscovered in Dodgson's inkwell. The earlier Alice, however, is much more than half as interesting; though it lacks the rococo richness of the final version, it has a primitive charm and artless appeal that make it, on the whole, rather the better of the two as a bedtime story...