Word: cherubic
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...Idol voting plays out this tension. The show is both sadistic - see the hugely popular audition rounds, in which Cowell mocks the worst singers - and sentimental. Voters have proved to be surprisingly ruthless bosses, firing the likes of cherub John Stevens, good kids who end up outmatched. But the voters are also willing to put a thumb on the scales for contestants who've paid their dues or have affecting personal stories. Ideally, Idol indulges the idea that the nicest people are the most talented, promising karmic justice in a pop world of Ashlee Simpsons and Paris Hiltons. "There...
...lost child or stray puppy instead of, you know, eating them. Stanford University studies showed that the same area of the brain that responds to faces also processes objects like cars and sculptures, explaining the huggable appeal of the VW Beetle and the porcelain cherub...
...agit-docs trace the Bush team?s hardball style back to tactics employed in earlier campaigns. ?Bush?s Brain,? directed by Joseph Mealey and Michael Shoob, dips into Texas history to clinch its four-part thesis: that the cherub-faced Rove has run some demonic campaigns, that some of his low-road strategies won George Bush the governor?s mansion and the White House, that Rove is a dominant force in the President?s policies (Moore has called Bush ?Karl Rove?s finger puppet?) and that he?s been behind some of the Bush team?s sleazier escapades, like...
...sight of the cherub-faced troubadour serenely strumming alongside his troupe of happy horn players, bell-ringers and la-la-laaing singers (all of them friends, and all of them shockingly gorgeous) isn’t one of the most convincing displays of transcendence-by-banjo, just check out the congregation. At the Middle East club last Sunday, there was none of that self-conscious swaying-and-chanting stuff, but there was ample staring and a lot of smiling. The cynical, pierced ears of all the emo kids were melting...
...instruments. As demand has risen, so has price: in 1986 his violins sold for $2000; now, you could purchase a Childs violin for $14,000. Each of his handmade violins bears his signature, not only by the ink stamp of a “Putto” cherub, which is his personal insignia—but also by the violin’s sound, which is distinctly Childs?...