Word: cartoonish
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...Everything's in a violent, cartoonish mood today...
...able to put the Cowboys through their paces. Microsoft is coming at it the other way around: let Dad buy the Xbox in the first place, partly because he wants to play dvds on it (GameCube runs on 3-in. mini-CDs), and then buy a couple of cartoonish multiplayer games (like the Marioesque Fuzion Frenzy) for the kids...
...final exhibit, featuring the work of 2000 ICA Artist Prize winner, Laylah Ali, is slightly more obscure and ambiguous in its aims. Drawings of cartoonish, round-headed figures aptly called “Greenheads” depic confrontational situations that appear slightly amusing until closely inspected. The figures, which seem alien-like at first glance due to their green heads, soon come to resemble human beings in compromising positions. Morbid scenes of violence show lynchings, detached limbs, captivity and fear. Ali’s fine-grained gouache techniques allow her to emphasize disturbing minute details, like Confederate flags...
...combination of cartoonish violence and ironic posturing that wasn't matched until years later, when Itchy and Scratchy started showing up on "The Simpsons." I think they were saying, "Forget about propriety. Forget about meaning. Forget about what music is supposed to be. Lose yourself. Bang your head into the wall." Is this a significant message? I don't know, I just loved it. It was pure sensation, a two-and-a-half-minute kick-ass blowout with hooks and a catchy melody, too! (Did I mention how utterly melodic the Ramones were? How the tunes stay with...
...just ludicrous enough to sour them on watching the show. The figures that in reality would be the real authority, and scary ones at that - the drill sergeants - are on Reality TV stripped of their realism, because they've been stripped of their power to expel. They become cartoonish. Ridiculous. Probstian...