Word: cartoonishly
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...bunch of guys firing rockets out of guitar cases and stuff. A lot of people watch From Dusk Till Dawn and don't know whether they should be laughing or not. Spy Kids is obviously my least violent film, but then my approach to violence has always been pretty cartoonish and over-the-top, so it's really not that different...
...17th century France. When seen in combination with Linda Cho’s stylized costuming and Frances Aronson’s over-reliance on primary colors in lighting the play, one might expect oversized puppets to dance across the stage. This effect is heightened or perhaps created by the cartoonish acting of nearly the entire ensemble. Leading the pack is Brooks Ashmanskas as Amphitryon’s much-maligned slave Sosia. A dim-witted but earnest fellow, Ashmanskas’ Sosia reacts to his mistreatment at the hands of Mercury (and then practically everyone else in the play) with...
...boosters are miffed. "What makes us any different from pants with pockets?" asks Billy Ruff, 36, who co-founded the Costa Mesa, Calif., company that makes the shoes. "Levi's has their little hidden fifth pocket, and nobody's making a big deal about that." Decorated with cartoonish flames, stars and devil's tails, Sha Shas are flashier than most Doc Martens and have a cushier sole. "Besides looking dope, the shoes are really comfortable," says Glenn Innes, 23, the editor of SuperPunk.com in Edmonton, Alta., who adds that he has never stored anything in the G-spot...
Live events were similarly jollied up. With baseball, a sport with which locals are not overly familiar, Australia showed that it's possible to outdo even Triple-A ballparks with cartoonish bells and whistles. At every foul ball, loudspeakers blasted the sound of smashing glass--even if they were grounders. One can't help feeling there's a lesson here for the steeplechase or dressage. Those top hats are just begging for a visual...
When I first saw Philip Guston's delightfully cartoonish paintings as a kid-that is, the paintings he made during and after the 1970s, the ones he is most remembered for-I thought, quite succinctly, "Cute!" At the time, it seemed to me that Guston's motley crew of regular characters-pointy, cone-headed creatures with endearing toaster-slit eyes, big cycloptic heads, crudely drawn shoes and other everyday paraphernalia-operated in and seemed privy to a very special world, impervious to the scrutiny of cynical adult types. The muteness of these things held a sort of infinite communicability...