Word: childishly
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There is a major breakdown in communication between the right and left in this country. And most debate simply degenerates into childish name-calling. But the conservatives grow in power when they are dismissed as crazy. Evolution will be back when the new moderate members take office, but grumbling beneath the surface will continue and the conservatives still will be able to say that the only reason they lost was because their actions were skewed by the national media. They were misunderstood...
Chuck, who now prefers to be called Charlie, has not seen Buck in 15 years, has a fast-track job in the Los Angeles music industry and a seemingly strong relationship with his fiance Carlyn (Beth Colt), and has long since put aside childish things, especially his boyhood fling with Buck, who gropes him at the funeral. Undeterred by Chuck's resistance, Buck moves to Los Angeles, where Chuck becomes his occupation. Make that preoccupation. He intrudes on him at his home and his office; he peers through the window when Chuck and Carlyn make love; he mistakes their puzzled...
...Interhouse: What you will do to avoid eating in Annenberg. 2. Best way to get to know upperclass students or at least observe their childish eating habits...
...doggedly competitive spirit of pseudo-childish Play and Fun seems to have taken over the thinking of the sneaker industry. Something of the same archly juvenile outlandishness has been at work designing women's shoes, which have the look of illustrations in a children's story - blockish and clunkish and exaggerated. All fashion is an aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman...
...recount their stories. To hear them tell it, they provide a useful social service while protecting their "hos" from the vicissitudes of street life. But repetition erodes charm. What emerges instead is a portrait of crudely patriarchal males, harshly exploiting pathetically damaged women, then perversely wasting their profits on childish displays of outrageous clothes and cars. Loutishness without self-awareness remains loutishness--and it is finally depressing...