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...understand the line "This world is such a gas!" followed by an impolite noise, and the baleful "I can barely hear myself suck!" but not the pouty "I miss my old womb," and maybe not the exchange between a female voice ("Man, they cut my cord!") and a male ("Awww, consider yourself lucky"). Side benefit of taking your kids to the movie: it was probably time to explain the miracle of circumcision to them anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Rugrats Rule? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...stars, is required to play it slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience is so many Strasbourg geese, force-fed treacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SAY AMEN! SAY AWWW! | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...Awww, shucks. We're sure Neil will be too busy pulling at the "tales" of Harvard's gowns to notice that his middle initial...

Author: By Edited THIS Column. and Brian R. Hecht compiled, S | Title: Required Reading | 11/8/1991 | See Source »

...only an afterlife. By now you are familiar with all those transcendental rehab movies -- Ghost and its spectrally sentimental cousins -- in which people return from the void to get a chance to say (What else?) "I love you." Audiences lose themselves in a teary mixture of awe and awww at these wistful fantasies, which now constitute an entire genre: sigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Realm of Sigh-Fi | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

Just say...Awww, just say what the fuck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Things First | 4/20/1991 | See Source »

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